Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing blev kendt som britisk forfatterinde med debut i 1950 med ægteskabsromanen Græsset synger (The Grass is Singing). Blev indstillet til Bookerprisen for Briefing for a Descent into Hell i 1971, for The Sirian Experiments i 1981, samt for The Good Terrorist i 1985, dog uden at vinde. Hun udgav sine erindringer Under huden i 1994. I 2001 fik hun prisen Prince of Asturias Prize in Literature for hendes arbejder om frihed og den tredje verden. Hun modtog også The David Cohen British Literature Prize.

Bibliografi

• The Grass Is Singing (1949)
• The Children of Violence Series (1951-1959):
  • Martha Quest
  • A Proper Marriage
  • A Ripple from the Storm
  • Landlocked
  • The Four-Gated City
• The Summer Before the Dark
• The Golden Notebook (1962)
• The Temptation of Jack Orkney and other stories
• A Small Personal Voice (Essays)
• Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971) - Nomineret til Bookerprisen 1971
• Memoirs of a Survivor (1974)
• The Canopus in Argos: Archives Series (1979-1983)
  • Shikasta
  • The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five
  • The Sirian Experiments - Nomineret til Bookerprisen 1981
  • The Making of the Representative from Planet 8
  • Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents
• Stories (collection)
• Under the pseudonym Jane Somers:
  • The Diary of a Good Neighbour (1983)
  • If the Old Could... (1984)
• The Good Terrorist (1985) - Nomineret til Bookerprisen 1985
• The Fifth Child (1988)
• Lessings autobiography:
  • Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 (1995)
  • Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography 1949 to 1962 (1997)
• Love, Again (1996)
• Mara and Dann (1999)
• Ben, in the World (a sequel to The Fifth Child) (2000)
• The Sweetest Dream (2002)

• Lexopen

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