Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing was a British-Zimbabwean author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007, becoming the oldest person and only the eleventh woman to receive the honour. Born in 1919 in Persia (now Iran) and raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), she moved to London in 1949 and became one of the most important and prolific writers of the twentieth century. Doris Lessing: A BBC Radio Collection brings together radio broadcasts and recordings that capture the voice and intellectual range of this remarkable writer. Lessing's vast body of work spans realist fiction, science fiction, memoir, essays and plays, with landmark novels including The Golden Notebook, The Grass is Singing and the Canopus in Argos series. Her writing addressed themes of politics, race, gender, psychology and the individual's relationship to society with fierce intelligence and independence of mind. Her audiobooks and books continue to challenge and inspire readers worldwide. She died in 2013.