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The Nobel Prize For Literature Goes To Doris Lessing!

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The 87-year- old British Novelist Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for literature, proving an official wrong, who had once remarked about her inefficiency to do so. Ironically, she found out about her prestigious award from a reporter who was waiting outside her house. She was delighted at being the chosen one, and revealed that having won literally all the prizes in Europe, this addition gave her the ‘royal flush’.

Doris sat talking to the media persons on her front door step, with the phone ringing behind her continuously. She informed how she had taken her son to the hospital and then was in the Heath, and was unaware of the prize, but was glad that now people would buy her books. She initially mistook the television crew for photographing the street for some television soap, and was quite surprised to know that she was the actual center of attraction. So, finally she would be earning good money, she stated casually!

Lessing spoke about her next venture, Alfred and Emily an anti-war book, dedicated solely to her parents. They had gone through the horrifying experiences of the World War One and she had given them ordinary, decent lives without war, through her book. The second half of the book has been picked up from the lives of her parents, as her father was wounded before the 1917 battle of Passchendaele, suffering for the rest of his life.

Doris has a message to convey to the people and politicians, regarding the ill effects of war, mentioning that only those who have gone through this hell can know what it’s like. Her agent, who had read the manuscript, has described the last 200 pages of ‘Alfred and Emily’ as ‘unbearably painful’. This elated her further, for if reading about the dreadful consequences of war could move one person, it might make a difference somewhere in the system. We sincerely wish her good luck in her endeavor to wash away war from our planet!

On being questioned whether she would refuse the Nobel Prize like ’some good people’ had in the past, she said she hadn’t contemplated on the issue and would think about it seriously now.

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