Doris Lessing is an English novelist and short story writer and her works are largely concerned with social and political themes, particularly the place of women in society.
She was born in Kermanshah, Persia (now Iran) and her family moved to England in 1949.
Her first published book, The Grass Is Singing (1950), is about a white farmer, his wife and their African servant in Rhodesia and began her career as a professional writer.
Later she turned to science fiction in a five-novel series titled Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–83). She also published Diary of a Good Neighbour (1983) and If the Old Could… (1984) under the pseudonym Jane Somers to dramatize the problems of unknown writers.
In 2001 she was awarded the David Cohen lifetime achievement award and the Prince of Asturias Prize in Literature, one of Spain's most important distinctions, for her brilliant literary works in defense of freedom and Third World causes.
Lessing won the Nobel Literature Prize for her epic literary works that cover feminism, politics and her youth in Zimbabwe on October 11, 2007.
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