Nov 17 2013
British author Doris Lessing died today, aged 94.
She became the oldest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature when in 2007, at the age of 88, she won the award for her life's work. Her best-known works include The Golden Notebook, Memoirs of a Survivor and The Summer Before the Dark.
Born in Iran, she moved to Zimbabwe as a child before settling in England in 1949.
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