Doris Lessing Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

I saw this news article in today’s Shelf Awareness, an online newsletter I subscribe to:

“British author Doris Lessing has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2007. In announcing the award, the Swedish Academy called her "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny."
The BBC noted that "Lessing is only the 11th woman to win the prize, considered by many to be the world's highest accolade for writers, since it started in 1901."

Lessing was born in what is now Iran and moved to Rhodesia - now Zimbabwe - as a child before settling in England in 1949. Her debut novel The Grass is Singing was published the following year and she made her breakthrough with The Golden Notebook in 1962. "The burgeoning feminist movement saw it as a pioneering work and it belongs to the handful of books that informed the 20th Century view of the male-female relationship," the Swedish Academy said; however, Lessing herself has distanced herself from the feminist movement.

Here are some of Lessing’s books currently owned in HCPL:

The Wind Blows Away Our Words and Other Documents Relating to the Afghan Resistance
The Fifth Child
Under My Skin (volume one of Lessing’s autobiography)
Walking in the Shade (volume two of the autobiography)
Golden Notebook
Mara and Dan
The Sweetest Dream
The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels
Time Bites: Views and Reviews
The Story of General Dann and Mara’s Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog: a Novel
The Cleft

Check out Novelist on ReadersPlace for reviews of Doris Lessing’s fiction.
HarperCollins has a Reading Group Guide for The Golden Notebook