British · 1919–2013
Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny." The British author—born in Persia, raised in Rhodesia—produced a vast body of work spanning realism, science fiction, and Sufi mysticism. "The Golden Notebook" became a feminist landmark; "The Good Terrorist" earned a Booker shortlisting. Lessing refused categorization, following her curiosity wherever it led across a sixty-year career.