You can’t win the Nobel Prize in Literature as a flash-in-the-pan. Nope. You need a substantial body of highly regarded work to even be considered. Worth over $1.5 million in tax-exempt prize money, the Nobel provides a hefty nest-egg plus the glamour of pocketing the world’s most prestigious literary award.
Yesterday, the Swedish Academy announced the selection of Doris Lessing as the 104th Nobel Laureate. Ms. Lessing’s first book was published in 1950, and she has remained incredibly prolific over the last six decades. Her early works expressed the world’s burgeoning feminist ideals; she devoutly condemned colonialism; and she became a noted science fiction writer. She followed disparate paths throughout her career, yet no matter which way she went, Doris Lessing always wrestled with society’s ills gracefully.
The grass is singing
The golden notebook
The memoirs of a survivor
The good terrorist
The fifth child
The Doris Lessing reader
Under my skin
Love, again
The cleft
The making of the representative for Planet 8
An interesting history of the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize: a history of genius, controversy, and prestige
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