Doris Lessing
Articles by Doris Lessing
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Society
Ordinary people
- 11 September 2008
As a young woman, the novelist and recent Nobel Prize-winner for literature Doris Lessing wrote occasional articles for the New Statesman. In this piece she describes going in search of what D H Lawrence called “ordinary people” during a holiday in Paris, perhaps her favourite city after London. In a few waspish sentences, she conveys vivid and personal impressions of some of those she encountered during her journey and on the Left Bank in 1960
Society
Being prohibited
- 18 October 2007
Taken from The New Statesman 21 April 1956
Doris Lessing, who has just won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 87, wrote for this magazine for half a century. In this wry article, she describes how she was banned in 1956 from entering the apartheid South Africa, a country she was not allowed to visit for the next 39 years. The ostensible reason for refusing her entry was not her association with the Communist Party, but that she was born in Persia, and therefore deemed to be an “Asiatic”
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