Presentation of Doris Lessing, including her full biography.
Forget Virginia Woolf or Simone de Beauvoir. The true literary rebel was Doris Lessing. A woman who defied social conventions, broke literary moulds and won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 87.
More than just a biography, this presentation is a fascinating journey through the life of an exceptional woman who left her mark on history.
3. Introduction
• Opinion on social and political
issues.
• Advocacy of feminism.
• Criticism of racism, oppression,
inequality, etc.
4. Biography
• Date of Birth: 22 October1919,Kermanshah,
Persia.
• Death: 17 November2013,London.
• She left school and started working at the age of
15.
• In 1937 she married Frank Wisdom and had two
children: John and Jean.
• 1943 first story published in local magazine.
• 1949 moved to Londonwith husband and children.
• 1950,first successful novel.
• Series of novels on the same themes from 1962 to
1970s.
• British Communist Party.
• 1951:divorced and married Gottfried Lessing,
moved house.
• 1956,Londonand trip to USSR, criticism of
communism.
• Normal writer until her death.
• Last work: "Alfred and Emily".
5. Awards
• Nobel Prize in Literature (2007), 11th woman
to receive this prize and the oldest person to
win it up to that time.
• Princess of Asturias Award for Literature
(2001).
• James Tait Black Memorial Award (1971 and
1982).
• German Booksellers' Peace Prize (1982)
• Somerset Maugham Award (1954)
6. Type of works
• Novels, short stories, essays,
poetry and plays.
• Reflective themes.
• Opinion
7. Most outstanding
work
"The Golden Notebook
• Subjective and complex.
• 4 sections.
• Varied and taboo topics.
• Construction and questioning.
8. Reading of a
text fragment
"No hay más enfermedad que el
pensamiento, no hay más salud
que la claridad mental, no hay
más felicidad que la paz del
espíritu"
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