Golden Notebook author Lessing wins Nobel Prize

STOCKHOLM, Sweden. British writer Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said yesterday, citing her skepticism, fire and visionary power in dozens of works, notably her classic he Golden Notebook.

The burgeoning feminist movement saw it as a pioneering work and it belongs to the handful of books that inform the 20th century view of the male-female relationship, the academy said in its citation.

Lessing, who at 87 is the oldest person to win the Nobel Literature prize, could not be reached to be told of her award, the academy's permanent secretary Horace Engdahl said. Lessing's agent, Jonathan Clowes, said she was out shopping in London.

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