The Nobel Prize

Doris Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature.

What does it take to win the Nobel? Here's a list of Lessing's works in English:

The Grass is Singing. 1950
This was the Old Chief's Country. 1952
Martha Quest. 1952. – (Children of Violence; 1)
Five : Short Novels. 1953
A Proper Marriage. 1954. – (Children of Violence; 2)
A Retreat to Innocence. 1956
The Habit of Loving. 1957
Going Home. 1957
A Ripple from the Storm. 1958 (Children of Violence; 3)
Fourteen Poems. 1959
In Pursuit of the English : a Documentary. 1960
Play with a Tiger : a Play in Three Acts. 1962
The Golden Notebook. 1962
A Man and Two Women. 1963
Martha Quest and A Proper Marriage. 1964
African Stories. 1964
Landlocked. 1965 (Children of Violence; 4)
A Ripple from the Storm and Landlocked. 1966
The Black Madonna. 1966
Winter in July. 1966
Particularly Cats. 1967
The Four-Gated City. 1969 (Children of Violence; 5)
Briefing for a Descent into Hell. 1971
The Story of a Non-Marrying Man and Other Stories. 1972.
Collected African stories. Vol. 1, This was the Old Chief's Country. 1973
Collected African stories. Vol. 2, The Sun Between Their Feet. 1973
The Summer Before the Dark. 1973
The Memoirs of a Survivor. 1974
Stories. 1978
To Room Nineteen : Collected Stories Volume One. 1978
The Temptation of Jack Orkney : Collected Stories Volume Two. 1978
Shikasta : Re: Colonised Planet 5. 1979 (Canopus in Argos: Archives; 1)
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five. 1980 (Canopus in Argos: Archives; 2)
The Sirian Experiments. 1981 (Canopus in Argos: Archives; 3)
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8. 1982 (Canopus in Argos: Archives; 4)
Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire. 1983 (Canopus in Argos: Archives; 5)
The Diary of a Good Neighbour. 1983
If the Old Could ... 1984
The Diaries of Jane Somers. 1984
The Good Terrorist. 1985
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside. 1987
The Wind Blows Away Our Words. 1987
The Fifth Child. 1988
The Real Thing : Stories and Sketches. 1992
African Laughter : Four Visits to Zimbabwe. 1992
Shadows on the Wall of the Cave : a talk by Doris Lessing delivered 19 January 1994
Conversations / edited by Earl G. Ingersol. – Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press, 1994
A Small Personal Voice : Essays, Reviews, Interviews 1994
Under My Skin : Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949. 1994
Spies I Have Known and Other Stories. 1995
Playing the Game. 1995
Love, Again. 1996
Play with a Tiger, and Other Plays. 1996
Walking in the Shade : Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962. 1997
Mara and Dann : an Adventure. 1999
Ben, in the World. 2000
The Sweetest Dream. 2001
On Cats. 2002
The Grandmothers : Four Short Novels. 2003
Time Bites : Views and Reviews. 2004
The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog. 2005
The Cleft. 2007

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