What a pleasure it is to learn that Doris Lessing is finally awarded the 2007 Nobel prize for literature! The honour, announced two weeks before her 88th birthday, comes after repeated nominations and short-listings for the prize over the last forty years. It is indeed well-deserved: for a lifetime's work of unmatched range and surprise, and especially for her pathbreaking treatment of women's inner lives and sexual identity in The Golden Notebook (1962).
Müge Galin is lecturer in English at Ohio State University, Columbus.
Among her works is Between East and West : Sufism in the Novels of Doris Lessing (SUNY Press, 1997)
Also in openDemocracy on Doris Lessing's Nobel award:
Susan Watkins, "Doris Lessing: writing against and for" (12 October 2007)
