Novelist Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing

Living place: Iran

Birthday: 22-10-1919

Global rank: #60928

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Who is Novelist Doris Lessing?
Known for novels such as The Singed Grass and The Golden Notebook, she was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. Her other notable works include The Terrorist Good, The Fifth Child, and The Sweetest Dream. . Thursday
She was ranked on Fifty's 2008 The Times' list of Greatest British Writers Since 1945.
 
 

Young / Before famous

After studying at the Dominican Monastery in Zimbabwe, she left home at the age of fifteen to work as a nursing assistant.

Family life info

She was born in Iran, and she spent much of her childhood in Zimbabwe. She then moved to England and was married to Frank Charles Wisdom from 1939 until 1943.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist Doris Lessing?
She won the Nobel Prize for Literature two years before Herta Muller received the same honor.

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When was Novelist Doris Lessing born?
Doris Lessing was born in 22-10-1919, death year is , at the age of 105.
Where is Novelist Doris Lessing's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Doris Lessing was born in . is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Libra, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Goat. Doris Lessing's global rank is 60928 and whose rank is 551 in list of famous Novelist.
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Events in 1919 and 22-10

Events in the world in the birth year of Doris Lessing

  • Versailles Treaty, incorporating Woodrow Wilson's draft Covenant of League of Nations, signed by Allies and Germany; rejected by U.S. Senate.
  • 18th Amendment (Prohibition) adopted. Background: Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
  • Mahatma Gandhi initiates Satyagraha campaigns, beginning his nonviolent resistance movement against British rule in India.

Birthday Doris Lessing (22-10) in history

  • Day 22-10 year 1797: Balloon operator Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first parachute jump from a hot air balloon.
  • Day 22-10 year 1836: Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
  • Day 22-10 year 1954: West Germany joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
  • Day 22-10 year 1962: President Kennedy announced an air and naval blockade of Cuba, following the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.
  • Day 22-10 year 1973: Spanish cellist, conductor, and composer Pablo Casals died in Puerto Rico, at age 96.
  • Day 22-10 year 1979: Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi, the deposed Shah of Iran, was allowed in the United States for medical treatment. This action led to the Iran hostage crisis.
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