LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Becket
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Lessing
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Detailed explanation-1: -Announcement of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature to Doris Lessing, presented by Professor Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 11 October 2007.
Detailed explanation-2: -The British author Doris Lessing has won the 2007 Nobel prize for literature. Lessing, who is only the 11th woman to win literature’s most prestigious prize in its 106-year history, is best known for her 1962 postmodern feminist masterpiece, The Golden Notebook.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ans. Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to won the Nobel Prize in 1913 in the field of Literature for his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill. He has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West.