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Novels Novels Because of her campaigning against nuclear arms and South African apartheid, Lessing was banned from that country and from Rhodesia for many years. She moved to London with her youngest son in 1949. Her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, was published in 1950. Her breakthrough work, The Golden Notebook, was written in 1962 In 2007, Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was 87, making her the oldest winner of the literature prize at the time of the award and the third oldest Nobel Laureate in any category. She also stands as only the eleventh woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by the Swedish Academy in its 106-year history. Lessing was out shopping for groceries when the announcement came, arriving home to tell reporters who had gathered there, Oh Christ!”. She told reporters outside her home Ive won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one, so Im delighted to win them all. Its a royal flush.“ She titled her Nobel Lecture On Not Winning the Nobel Prize and used it to draw attention to global inequality of opportunity, and to explore changing attitudes to storytelling and literature. The lecture was later published in a limited edition to raise money for children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. Awards Somerset Maugham Award(1954) Prix Médicis étranger(1976) Austrian State Prize for European Literature(1981) Shakespeare-Preis der Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F. V. S., Hamburg (1982) WH Smith Literary Award (1986) Palermo Prize (1987) Premio Internazionale Mondello (1987) Premio Grinzane Cavour (1989) James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography (1995) Los Angeles Times Book Prize (1995) Premi International Catalunya (1999) Order of the Companions of Honor (1999) Companion of Literature of the Royal Society of Literature (2000) David Cohen Prize (2001) Premio Príncipe de Asturias (2001) S.T. Dupont Golden PEN Award (2002) Nobel Prize in Literature (2007) The Golden