Nobel Literature Prize Goes to Doris Lessing
Written byPosted on October 11, 2007
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A very nice choice, if I do say so myself!
- Doris Lessing: A Retrospective
- 1988 and 1998 audio interviews with Don Swaim.
- Joyce Carol Oates on Lessing.
- Lessing interviewed by Dwight Garner (back in the Salon days when he was more fun).
- A Q&A from August with the Boston Globe’s Harvey Blume.
- Is Doris Lessing the first Nobel laureate with a MySpace page?
- Lessing’s controversial remarks against feminism.
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“The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no-one protests.”
You have to love that. Especially when she used “rubbish” as a verb.
Her reaction to reporters was hilarious — “Oh, Christ … I couldn’t care less,” according to an AP story.
How come no Roth? Or Delillo? When? Why not?
How come no Roth? Or Delillo? When? Why not?
Because other people can have valid aesthetic opinions that are different from yours. Roth or Delillo may receive the Nobel Prize in the future, but there’s nothing automatic about it.