February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Doris_lessing":
Analysis & Opinion: 7 Dec 11
Eighty-year-old Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, the first Swede in 40 years to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, looked on with tears in his eyes as he watched his poetry set to music during the 2011 Nobel Lecture in Literature on Wednesday, writes contributor Charlotte West.
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Lifestyle: 2 Oct 11
With the winner of the annual Nobel Prizes due to be announced in the coming days, speculation is rife over who will win the prestigious literature award this year, the AFP's Igor Gedilaghine discovers.
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Society: 22 Jun 10
Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking has been named among the top 100 books of all time in a major survey of 100 eminent writers from 54 countries who have elected "The Library of World Literature".
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National: 24 Jun 09
A lawyer contracted by the Swedish Migration Board to represent asylum seekers has a personal blog in which he refers to Islam as a “psychosocial disease”.
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Society: 9 Oct 08
As the Swedish Academy prepares to announce the winner of the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, critics argue that major US literary figures are being unfairly sidelined.
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Society: 3 Oct 08
As speculation begins to mount over this year's Nobel Literature Prize, the Swedish Academy said on Friday it would announce the winner on October 9th.
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Society: 12 May 08
British author Doris Lessing has said that winning the Nobel Prize for Literature was a "bloody disaster", adding she has now stopped writing, the BBC reported Sunday.
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National: 31 Jan 08
British author Doris Lessing received her Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London on Wednesday, after having been too ill to come to Stockholm.
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National: 11 Dec 07
Stockholm put on its glad rags and millions watched on TV as the Nobel Banquet celebrated the world's best brains.
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National: 10 Dec 07
The winners of the 2007 Nobel prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry and economics received their awards from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf in a ceremony on Monday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 10 Dec 07
As Nobel laureates, foreign media and a host of other dignitaries descend on Stockholm, Charlotte West recalls her conversations with two of last year’s winners about the real significance of Nobel Week.
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Society: 8 Dec 07
The glittering Nobel prize festivities Monday will be a little less luminous without the presence of some of the older laureates.
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National: 7 Dec 07
Nobel Literature Prize winner Doris Lessing has used her Nobel lecture to argue that the future of literature lies in knowledge-hungry developing countries, rather than in the apathetic west, writes Charlotte West.
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National: 28 Nov 07
Doris Lessing will not attend the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm on December 10th due to illness, it has been announced.
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National: 11 Oct 07
British author Doris Lessing - "that epicist of the female experience" - has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy has announced.
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National: 6 Oct 06
The 2006 Nobel Literature Prize laureate will be announced next Thursday. Potential names being discussed in Stockholm's literary circles include Amos Oz, Philip Roth, Adonis and Mario Vargas Llosa.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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