Lessing, Doris: 1919 - 2013
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2007
- Prize motivation: "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"
- The ceremony took place at the Swedish Academy, Stockholm, on December 7, 2007
- Presentation Speech by Per Wästberg, Writer, Member of the Swedish Academy, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature
- Doris Lessing Receives her Nobel Prize
- Nobel Lecture; delivered by Nicholas Pearson, Doris Lessing's publisher in the UK. Doris Lessing could not attend the ceremony. (Media 38:00)
- Telephone interview with the Nobel Prize Committee.