1. The Nobel Prize for Literature 2007 DORIS LESSING Nobel Laureates In Literature – Suzan Adel

2. The Nobel Prize Medal for Literature

3. Doris Lessing was born in Persia (now Iran) on October 22, 1919 Both of her parents were British Lessing has described her childhood as an uneven mix of some pleasure and much pain

5. The acclaimed first volume of her autobiography, Under My Skin (1994), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for biography), and was followed by a second volume, Walking in the Shade: Volume II of My Autobiography 1949-1962 (1997).

6. PRIZES AND AWARDS

12. References http://www.dorislessing.org/ http://www.nobelprize.org/ http://www.contemporarywrit ers.com/authors/?p=auth60

13. Presented by: Suzan Adel Mohamed suzan_adel2006@yahoo.com