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The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Over the past decade, there has been a crop of books about growing up as a white child in Africa in the final years of white rule. Now the publication of Doris Lessing's powerful Alfred and Emily is a reminder that she has been visiting this theme for well over half a century, drawing on her girlhood in colonial Southern Rhodesia to write many of the books that brought her international...
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John Baker's Blog (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Acknowledging that writing is a solitary occupation, but publishing is a business based on celebrity, Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky writes about the motivations of writers in The Kenyon Review: Doris Lessing complained to the BBC this week that winning the Nobel Prize for Literature has been “a bloody disaster” to her career as a writer. She told Radio [...]
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Isak (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Of all bloody disasters that I might dread experiencing someday, it's hard for me to count winning the Nobel Prize for Literature among them. Guess that means I'm no Doris Lessing. Lessing says the immense attention she's received since the...
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Electric Spec Editor Blog (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
I reported Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature here a while back. It's apparently time for an update. Now, according to BBC News, she says "...winning the prestigious award in 2007 had been a 'bloody disaster'. The increased media interest in her has meant that writing a full novel was next to impossible... Since her Nobel win she has been constantly in demand, she said. 'All...
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The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Bid adieu to first editions. Original stories from JK Rowling, Doris Lessing and co are to grace some lucky kitchen pinboard
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
As widely noted, Doris Lessing is complaining about winning the Nobel prize -- specifically she's complaining that all she does is give interviews -- in an interview.
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Jezebel (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Our favorite salty old lady Doris Lessing is still all grumpy about having won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature, calling it a "bloody disaster." She says that all the attention has been less than... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Entertainment - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Lessing, 88, said the Nobel Prize has led her on an endless stream of public appearances that have thoroughly disrupted her life, The Sunday Times of London reported....
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The First Post (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Doris Lessing claims that winning the Nobel Prize for literature, as she did last autumn, has been "a bloody disaster" and that it has caused her nothing but suffering and…
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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
London, May 12 (ANI): British writer Doris Lessing has labeled winning the Nobel Prize in 2007 a bloody disaster. The reason, she told Radio 4’s Front Row, was because with the increased media attention she found that writing a full novel was next to impossible. Lessing, 88, has said that she would probably be giving [...]
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Nobel literature prize winner Doris Lessing says she is unlikely to write a new full-length novel, according to excerpts of an interview released Sunday.
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The Local (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
British author Doris Lessing has said that winning the Nobel Prize for Literature was a "bloody disaster", adding she has now stopped writing, the BBC reported Sunday.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Receiving the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007 has had a good many negative consequences, British author Doris Lessing says.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Last week Doris Lessing said that winning the Nobel Prize for Literature had been a "bloody disaster". So much attention, so many interviews to do, no time to write. Yet she has just published Alfred & Emily, one of the most remarkable books she has ever written. For the 88-year-old author finally pays her dues to her parents, or so it seems to me, particularly to her mother of whom...
