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LESSING : NOBEL WIN A 'DISASTER' !
Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing has said winning the prestigious award in 2007 had been a "bloody disaster". The increased media interest in her has meant that writing a full novel was next to impossible, she told Radio 4's Front Row. Lessing, 88, also said she would probably now be giving up writing novels altogether. Her latest book is the partly fictional memoir entitled Alfred and Emily. Since her Nobel win she has been constantly in demand, she said. "All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed." Speaking about her writing, she said: "It has stopped, I don't have any energy any more. "This is why I keep telling anyone younger than me, don't imagine you'll have it forever. "Use it while you've got it because it'll go, it's sliding away like water down a plughole." Lessing is the 11th woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature in its 106-year history. Her best known works include The Golden Notebook and The Good Terrorist. "Thank you does not seem enough when you've won the best of them all. It is astonishing and amazing," she said at the time of winning. She also recalled that, in the 1960s, she had been informed that the Nobel Academy's judges did not like her and she would never win. Ill-health prevented her from attending the prize ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. Instead the Swedish Ambassador to London, Staffan Carlsson, presented the award to her in the UK. He told her she was being "crowned with a prize you have long deserved". Lessing was born in 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. Altogether she has written more than 50 novels, plays, memoirs and collections of short stories. The Golden Notebook is considered by many to be a feminist classic, though Lessing has distanced herself from the movement. BBC NEWS REPORT. | |
doris may taylor lessing deserved undoubtelly this great honour even if she
won this in the age of 88 years old. i admire her power to enjoy this .old
people should not be in isolation but in my coyntry even youngsters like me
are in social isolation and they get paid with 400 euros
the month even and if they find a job according to their talents,their
gifts and their virtues always.for the youngsters of greece i have an
advice :enjoy life only when you are feeling to do so because lifestyle for
some human beings is a disaster and for some others is a heaven.
ofcourse doris lessing would have prefered to win this in her youth but she
was unlucky.
a good age to win a nobel of literature is 50-55 years old.not 88 or 28
years .in the first category the winner can not enjoy it in the degree that
she or he wanted.in the second category it is ridiculous a young writer who
is 25,30 or 35 to win this great honour
because a writer should have write and publish some books in his country
and ofcourse to be famous in international level.a winner of nobel should
have a history behind him and a long term career.the political views of
doris lessing are very interesting and i agree with her
we are living ofcourse in the age of ideological collapses but i am not so
pessimistic like lessing that ideologies died because if this thing happens
this could be the ending of the capitalistic
system that dominates everywhere even in asia or africa.it is dissapointing
that doris lessing
will stop to write books but it is logical because her age doesnt let her
to be so energetic as she was in the past.doris lessing is an adorable
woman that observed the rise and the fall of hitler in power ,the creation
of the state of israel,the rising and the fall of communism,
the fall of the british empire and the ending of colonialism,the second
global war,the vietnamese war,the gold war,the iraqui war and ofcourse i
hope to enjoy the olympic games of london in 2012.this woman is a vivid
history and the experiences of her life are not comparable with any other
candidate under the age of 40 or 35 years old.youngsters do not have so
many experiences in their lifes like doris lessing,harold pinter or even
pamuc.young people do not have the maturity of the old people,their
experiences of life ,their wisdom, their knowledge to be more
specific.youngsters are vivid and sometimes are saying or write things with
out thinking or logic.best wishes to doris lessing and i am very curious
who will be the next winner of literature award
prudentia