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Doris Lessing wins '07 Nobel Prize for Literature

The young lions of literature will have to wait for their turn another year. As will the middle-aged lions, for that matter. Doris Lessing, at the spry age of 87, beat out all of them, and became the eldest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature. She's only the second woman to win the award in the past decade, joining Austria's Elfriede Jelinek, who captured the honor in 2004. Lessing, of the U.K., stands to many as one of the greats of feminist literature, although she herself has long felt uneasy with the term. Her 1962 novel The Golden...  read more