Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing
Date personale
Nume la naștere	Doris May Tayler
Născută	22 octombrie 1919 Kermanshah, Iran
Decedată	17 noiembrie 2013 (94 de ani) Londra, Anglia, Regatul Unit
Cauza decesului	accident vascular cerebral
Căsătorită cu	Gottfried Lessing[*][[Gottfried Lessing (diplomat german)|​]] (1944–1949)
Cetățenie	Regatul Unit Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei
Ocupație	scriitoare poetă romancieră[*]​ dramaturgă autobiografă[*]​ scenaristă eseistă scriitoare de science-fiction[*]​ prozatoare[*]​
Pseudonim	Jane Somers
Limbi	limba engleză
Studii	Dominican Convent High School[*][[Dominican Convent High School (private Catholic day school for girls in Harare, Zimbabwe)|​]]
Mișcare/curent literar	Realism literar
Specie literară	științifico-fantastic
Opere semnificative	The Grass Is Singing[*][[The Grass Is Singing |​]] The Golden Notebook[*][[The Golden Notebook |​]] The Good Terrorist[*][[The Good Terrorist |​]] The Cleft[*][[The Cleft |​]] The Memoirs of a Survivor[*][[The Memoirs of a Survivor |​]] A Ripple from the Storm[*][[A Ripple from the Storm |​]]
Note
Premii	Premiul Nobel pentru literatură Premiul Somerset-Maugham[*]​ WH Smith Literary Award[*][[WH Smith Literary Award (award)|​]] Premio Grinzane Cavour[*][[Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italian literary award)|​]] Premiul Memorial James Tait Black[*]​ David Cohen Prize[*][[David Cohen Prize (British literary award)|​]] Premiul Literar al Prințesei Asturiilor[*]​ Premiul Médicis pentru literatură străină Premiul internațional al Cataloniei[*]​ Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature[*][[Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (award of the Royal Society of Literature)|​]] Gold Order of Mapungubwe[*][[Gold Order of Mapungubwe |​]] Årets budeie[*][[Årets budeie |​]] Trevipriset[*][[Trevipriset (litterary award given by the editorial Trevi)|​]] Premiul Statului Austriac pentru literatură europeană
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Doris Lessing născută Doris May Tayler (n. 22 octombrie 1919, Kermanshah, Iran – d. 17 noiembrie 2013, Londra, Anglia, Regatul Unit), a fost o romancieră, poetă, dramaturgă din Marea Britanie, laureată a Premiului Nobel pentru literatură în anul 2007.

Opere

Romane

• The Grass is Singing (1950)
• The Golden Notebook (1962)
• Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971)
• The Summer Before the Dark (1973)
• Memoirs of a Survivor (1974)
• The Diary of a Good Neighbour (sub pseudonimul Jane Somers, 1983)
• If the Old Could... (sub pseudonimul Jane Somers, 1984)
• The Good Terrorist (1985)
• The Fifth Child (1988)
• Playing the Game (graphic novel, illustrated by Charlie Adlard, 1995)
• Love, Again (1996)
• Mara and Dann (1999)
• Ben, in the World (2000) – sequel to The Fifth Child
• The Sweetest Dream (2001)
• The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog (2005) – sequel to Mara and Dann
• The Cleft (2007)
• Alfred and Emily (2008)

The Children of Violence series

• Martha Quest (1952)
• A Proper Marriage (1954)
• A Ripple from the Storm (1958)
• Landlocked (1965)
• The Four-Gated City (1969)

The Canopus in Argos: Archives series

• Shikasta (1979)
• The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980)
• The Sirian Experiments (1980)
• The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (1982)
• The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (1983)

Opere

• The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (music by Philip Glass, 1986)
• The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (music by Philip Glass, 1997)

Teatru

• Each His Own Wilderness (three plays, 1959)
• Play with a Tiger (1962)

Poezie

• Fourteen Poems (1959)
• The Wolf People - INPOPA Anthology 2002 (poems by Lessing, Robert Twigger and T.H. Benson, 2002)

Colecție de povestiri

• Five Short Novels (1953)
• The Habit of Loving (1957)
• A Man and Two Women (1963)
• African Stories (1964)
• Winter in July (1966)
• The Black Madonna (1966)
• The Story of a Non-Marrying Man (1972)
• This Was the Old Chief's Country: Collected African Stories, Vol. 1 (1973)
• The Sun Between Their Feet: Collected African Stories, Vol. 2 (1973)
• To Room Nineteen: Collected Stories, Vol. 1 (1978)
• The Temptation of Jack Orkney: Collected Stories, Vol. 2 (1978)
• Through the Tunnel (1990)
• London Observed: Stories and Sketches (1992)
• The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches (1992)
• Spies I Have Known (1995)
• The Pit (1996)
• The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels (2003)

Cat Tales

• Particularly Cats (stories and nonfiction, 1967)
• Particularly Cats and Rufus the Survivor (stories and nonfiction, 1993)
• The Old Age of El Magnifico (stories and nonfiction, 2000)

Non-ficțiune

• Going Home (memorii, 1957)
• In Pursuit of the English (1960)
• Prisons We Choose to Live Inside (eseu, 1987)
• The Wind Blows Away Our Words (1987)
• African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe (memorii, 1992)
• A Small Personal Voice (eseu, 1994)
• Conversations (interviu, ediat de Earl G. Ingersoll, 1994)
• Putting the Questions Differently (interviu, ediat de Earl G. Ingersoll, 1996)
• Time Bites (eseu, 2004)

Autobiografie

• Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 (1994)
• Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 to 1962 (1997)

Traduceri în limba română

• O coborâre în infern, Ed. Polirom, 2007, ISBN 978-973-46-0922-2
• Povestiri africane, traducere Irina Horea, Ed. Polirom, 2008, 648 pag, ISBN 978-973-46-0356-5
• Al cincilea copil , traducere de Anca-Gabriela Sîrbu, Ed. Polirom, 2008, 195 pag, ISBN 978-973-46-1106-5
• Memoriile unei supraviețuitoare, (2010), Ed. Polirom
• Carnetul auriu, (2011) , Ed. Polirom
• Mitra, (2011), Ed. Polirom.

Legături externe

• ro Nobelul literar 2007: Doris Lessing