![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pausing rather crossly on her front path, she said ‘one can get more excited’, and went on to observe that since she had already won all the other prizes in Europe, this was ‘a royal flush’. Only the 11th woman to win the honour, she had beaten that year’s favourite, the American author Philip Roth. ‘Oh Christ,’ she said, on learning that their excitement was because at 88 she had just become the oldest author to win the Nobel prize in literature. “…she travelled back to West Hampstead, north London, by taxi, carrying heavy bags of shopping, to find the doorstep besieged by reporters and camera crews. Hailed by many as a feminist icon, the Swedish Institute referred to her as “ that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny” upon awarding her the Nobel Prize for Literature on 2007. Lessing was the author of over 50 novels, including The Golden Notebook and The Grass is Singing. ![]()
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