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British writer Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature
Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007

Open quote Either they were going to give it to me sometime before I popped off or not at all.Close quote

  • Novelist DORIS LESSING
  • on winning the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature after being on the shortlist for, according to her, 40 years
Photo: Lefteris Pitarakis / AP | Source: The New York Times