Golders Green Crematorium
Golders Green Crematorium
Memorial Page for Doris Lessing (née Doris May Tayler)
Oct 22, 1919 – Nov 17, 2013(94 years)Died in:London, United Kingdom
British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer
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Doris Lessing (* October 22, 1919 in Kermanshah; † November 17, 2013 in London) was a british novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer. She was 94 years old. She was married to Gottfried Lessing. She studied at Dominican Convent High School. She received 10 awards, including Nobel Prize in Literature, Somerset Maugham Award. Her cause of death was stroke. She was buried at Golders Green Crematorium.
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12 EventsBorn in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province
1919Married Gottfried Lessing
1943until 1949
Somerset Maugham Award
1954Prix Médicis étranger
1976WH Smith Literary Award
1986Grinzane Cavour Prize
1989James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1995Catalonia International Prize
1999David Cohen Prize
2001Princess of Asturias Literary Prize
2001Nobel Prize in Literature
2007Died in London, United Kingdom (stroke)
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Doris Lessing (née Doris May Tayler). Forever remembered.