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  • May 2008
    • Winning Nobel a Disaster: Lessing

      Winning Nobel a Disaster: Lessing

      (Newser) - Author Doris Lessing says winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 was a "bloody disaster" for her and her work. The 88-year-old author of The Good Terrorist and The Golden Notebook told the BBC she is in constant demand and has written little since winning. "All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed," she complained. More »

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      Doris Lessing   Nobel Prize for Literature

  • October 2007
    • Nobel Laureate Downplays 9/11

      Nobel Laureate Downplays 9/11

      (Newser) - Freshly minted Nobel laureate Doris Lessing said the 9/11 terrorist assault on the World Trade Center “wasn’t that terrible” in comparison to violence wreaked by the IRA in Britain. "Some Americans will think I'm crazy," she said in an interview in Spanish daily El Pais . "Many people died, two prominent buildings fell, but it was neither as terrible nor as extraordinary as they think. They're a very naive people, or they pretend to be."  More »

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      George W. Bush   Tony Blair   Ireland   IRA   Nobel   Doris Lessing

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