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Doris Lessing

 

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  • Born in Persia (now Iran), 1919

  • Spent her childhood in Persia and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) before moving to England in 1949

  • The Fifth Child won the Grinzane Cavour Prize in Italy

  • Ben, in the World (1999) is the sequal to The Fifth Child

  • Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature

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The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
The Fifth Child
 

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