Doris Lessing Wins Nobel!
Britain’s Lessing wins Nobel for literature
By Sarah Edmonds and Niklas Pollard
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – British novelist Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature on Thursday for a body of work that looked unflinchingly at society’s ills and inspired a generation of feminist writers.
Lessing is the first writer, who actually wrote and was marketed as science fiction, to win a Nobel Prize.
Very interesting Harvey Blume interview with Lessing where they discuss her career especially her views on science fiction.
Doris Lessing:
What they didn’t realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time. I also admire the classic sort of science fiction, like Blood Music, by Greg Bear. He’s a great writer.
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