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多丽丝·莱辛(Doris Lessing),英国著名作家,1919年出生于伊朗,原姓泰勒,父母是英国人。莱辛五岁时,全家迁往英属殖民地罗得西亚(即今津巴布韦),此后20余年家境一直贫困。1949年,莱辛携幼子移居英国,当时两手空空,一贫如洗,全部家当是皮包中的一部小说草稿。该书在1950年以《野草在歌唱》(The Grass Is Singing)为题出版,使莱辛一举成名。1962年,小说《金色笔记》(The Golden Notebook)发表,成为莱辛的代表作。莱辛是一位多产作家,除长篇小说以外,还著有诗歌、散文、剧本和短篇小说。她曾获毛姆文学奖、英国皇家文学会荣誉奖等几十项文学大奖,被誉为继弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫之后英国最伟大的女作家。2007年,莱辛获得诺贝尔文学奖,是迄今为止获奖时最年长的女性诺贝尔奖获得者。2013年11月17日,莱辛在伦敦去世,终年94岁。半是小说半是回忆录的《阿尔弗雷德与埃米莉》(Alfred&Emily)发表于2008年,是莱辛的封笔之作。
Doris Lessing, a famous British writer, was born in 1919 in Iran, formerly named Taylor, whose parents are British. Lessing was five years old, the family moved to the British colony of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), after more than 20 years of family has been poor. In 1949, Lessing moved to England with her young son. At that time, he was empty-handed and impoverished. All the belongings were a draft novel in the bag. The book was published in The Grass Is Singing in 1950, making Lessing famous. In 1962, the novel “Golden Notes” (The Golden Notebook) published, became Lessing’s masterpiece. Lessing is a prolific author, in addition to novels, poems, essays, scripts and short stories are also on display. She has won dozens of literary awards such as the Maugham Literary Award, the Royal Society of Literature Honor Award, and is acclaimed as the greatest British writer after Virginia Woolf. Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007, and is by far the oldest female Nobel Prize winner at the time of winning. On November 17, 2013, Lessing died in London, at the age of 94. Half a novel Half a memoir “Alfred & Emily” (Alfred & Emily) published in 2008, is Lessing’s seal pen masterpiece.