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 Doris LessingBritish Writerborn in Oct. 1919 die in Nov.2013 (aged?94)  —won Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 —the eleventh woman to win the prize in its 106-year history, —the oldest person ever to win the literature award Catalogue Early life career Major Works Literary Style Literary movement Awards Golden Notebook Comments Early life Lessing left school aged 14, and thereafter was self-educated. She left home at 15 and worked as a nursemaid, and it was around this time that Lessing started reading material on politics and sociology that her employer gave her to read. She began writing around this time. Career She worked at various jobs such as nursemaid, telephone operator, typist and journalist and so on. She married twice before she moved to London in 1949. She earned her living by writing. She was Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. Major Works The Communist （共产主义）theme: The Grass is Singing 《野草在歌唱》 The Golden Notebook 《金色笔记本》 The Children of Violence series Martha Quest (1952) A Proper Marriage (1954) 《良缘》 A Ripple from the Storm (1958) 《风暴的余波》 Landlocked (1965) 《被陆地围住的》 The Four-Gated City (1969) 《四门之城》 Literary Style As a short story writer, Doris Lessing is particularly noted for her precision, her choice of words and her economy of language. Her life and experience in Rhodesia have provided excellent material for her African stories, which have been widely acclaimed. Literary movement Lessing’s fiction is commonly divided into three distinct phases: The communist theme in the 1950’s(when she was writing radically on social issues) The psychological theme (writing something about the inner world of women and sometimes concerning anti-communism theme in the 1960’s The Sufi theme after 1970’s 伊斯兰苏菲派（神秘主义和禁欲主义）(which was explored in a science fiction setting in the Canopus series (老人星系列） Sufi 苏菲派 - 伊斯兰伟大的神秘主义运动  苏菲派（Sufeiyah),10-11世纪伊斯兰教中出出现的一种神秘主义和禁欲主义的派别。“苏菲”（