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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Stockholm - Winners of the Nobel prize for literature since 1946: 2008 - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio (France) 2007 - Doris Lessing (Britain) 2006 - Orhan Pamuk (Turkey) 2005 - Harold Pinter (Britain) 2004 - Elfriede Jelinek (Austria) 2003 - John M C...
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Harper's Magazine (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
No one would think to begrudge the grower of a prize-winning pumpkin tipping the scales at a country fair. Pity, though, the poor writer saddled with similar, heavyweight fortune. With any honor bestowed, she is guaranteed equal obloquy. Both Doris Lessing and Elfriede Jelinek, with their recent $1,415,969.81 checks (at today’s rate for 10,000,000 Swedish Kroner), also earned the opprobria of professional...
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Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
I would be surprised if this year's Nobel Prize for Literature goes to any English language writer, for Doris Lessing won the award last year and English language writers have been getting the award every alternate year since 2001 when...
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Clamouring to become visible... (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
This is adapted from an article that appeared on the Write Anything website on May 11, 2008. The original text can be found here . This thing called wantin’ and havin’ it all… In 2007, Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. At the time, she said "Thank you does not seem enough when you’ve won the best of them all. It is astonishing and amazing," especially as she had been informed...
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Chekhov's Mistress (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The Institute for the Future of the Book announces a Public Conversation on Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook . The important thing to note here is that this conversation will be taking place in a blog-like format with the reader’s notes right along with the text and (I think) those notes can also be commented on. Certainly worth watching to see if the format creates a more interesting response to...
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if:book (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Beginning November 10th, seven women will begin a public conversation in the margins of Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook . The text of the novel and the readers' conversation will be in a nifty new format designed by Apt Studios in London, similar to, but much more elegant than CommentPress. We'll put up a preview sometime in October. In the meantime here is a brief bio of the seven readers: Harriet...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Doris Lessing had to wait until she was 87 to receive her Nobel Prize in literature last year; five young authors are being saluted a bit sooner. The National Book Foundation is paying tribute to these fiction writers younger than 35, chosen by previous National Book Award winners and finalists. They’re being honored for producing work that is “particularly promising and exciting and is among the best...
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Red Red Whine (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
What a strange read! I must admit that I was a little intimidated to crack open Alfred & Emily. Let’s face it: the whole Author Was A 2007 Nobel Laureate thing is a bit overwhelming for a girl whose last couple reads were a YA novel and a poorly written mystery. For the first [...]
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WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
The Associated Press Senior citizens pursuing education from homeThe Associated Press - 31 minutes agoHer fall selections include a course on the life and work of author Doris Lessing and a class on recording personal histories. While the majority of the …
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UNSANE AND SAFE (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Reflecting upon the nature of thanatos (Freud's 'death instinct'), it does seem to bare a lot of the characteristics of Nietzsche's ressentiment . Recently, I detected, in Doris Lessing's book, Going Home , that the attitude underlying the whole book was something of the order of: "Let us destroy this evil in front of us, so that good may result." I even had someone apppear on this site to confirm...
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
So far Iâve done two of the four book discussions about Doris Lessingâs The Golden Network Iâm scheduled to lead this fall, and two things seem clear: she has never stopped mining her life for her art, and she goes overboard on the projects she particularly holds dear.At around 600 pages (depending on the edition) The Golden Notebook is considered by many critics to be her masterwork. Itâs...
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New Statesman (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
As a young woman, the novelist and recent Nobel Prize-winner for literature Doris Lessing wrote occasional articles for the New Statesman. In this piece she describes going in search of what D H Lawrence called ordinary people during a holiday in Paris, perhaps her favourite city after London. In a few waspish sentences, she conveys vivid and personal impressions of some of those she encountered...
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io9 (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Musicians have been inspired by science fiction for as long as the concept has been around. Composers have based entire operas around plots by Doris Lessing and Philip K. Dick. And, from the Beatles... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
The fall season of book discussion groups starts today for me. One of my pleasures of the past few years has been being invited to lead book discussions in various libraries. This evening I meet a group in the Montreal suburb of Pierrefonds to talk about Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, and tomorrow I lead a causerie littéraire on her Carnet d’or. The book is much longer than I remembered, and...
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UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation has acquired exclusive rights for translating three books of Doris Lessing, acclaimed British novelist and winner of the 2007 Noble Prize for Literature, following its successful translation of �Memoirs of a
