Yesterday it was announced that Doris Lessing is the 2007 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here's an article about her career but this brief interview in Newday (from which this photo comes) is an even better suggestion of her work and her approach. Throughout a long career she has refused to be categorized or stereotyped, and she was a pioneer in working in "genre" forms, notably science fiction, paving the way not only for other women writers but other women writers like Margaret Atwood (my favorite for the award, but who can begrudge it for the elder Lessing) who found resonance in science fiction and fantasy settings. 
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