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I whooped for joy this morning when I read over at the Times that Doris Lessing won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. As the Guardian notes, she's only the 11th woman to win the prize, and the oldest living person to be awarded the honor. She's best know for The Golden Notebook which is usually hailed as a feminist text, but is just as bold an experiment in literary form. (Side note, check out this audio snippet of her reading from the book.) I highly recommend her Children of Violence series, which has some of my favorite writing about women struggling to maintain identity within political movements.Her response to the news?
Stout, sharp and a bit hard of hearing, after a few moments Ms. Lessing excused herself to go inside. “Now I’m going to go in to answer my telephone,” she said. “I swear I’m going upstairs to find some suitable sentences which I will be using from now on.”I'll refer you back to the title of this post. --Phoebe Connelly
