{"id":837,"date":"2007-10-11T15:16:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T15:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2007\/10\/11\/doris-lessing-wins-nobel-prize\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:42","slug":"doris-lessing-wins-nobel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2007\/10\/11\/doris-lessing-wins-nobel-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain’s Lessing wins Nobel for literature<\/span>
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\nBy Sarah Edmonds and Niklas Pollard<\/p>\n

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – British novelist Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature on Thursday for a body of work that looked unflinchingly at society’s ills and inspired a generation of feminist writers.
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Lessing is the first writer, who actually wrote and was marketed as science fiction<\/span>, to win a Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n

Very interesting Harvey Blume interview<\/a> with Lessing where they discuss her career especially her views on science fiction.<\/p>\n

Doris Lessing:<\/p>\n

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What they didn’t realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time. I also admire the classic sort of science fiction, like Blood Music<\/span>, by Greg Bear. He’s a great writer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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