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Doris Lessing

1919 - 2013

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Doris May Lessing (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist. She was born to British parents in Persia, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Doris Lessing is the 318th most popular writer (up from 341st in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Iran (up from 51st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Iranian Writer.

Doris Lessing is most famous for her novels, which include The Golden Notebook, The Grass is Singing, and The Good Terrorist.

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Among writers, Doris Lessing ranks 318 out of 7,302. Before her are Ismail Kadare, Herman Melville, Max Brod, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Ernst Jünger, and Antonin Artaud. After her are Héloïse, François Mauriac, Henri Charrière, Italo Calvino, Marguerite de Navarre, and Nadine Gordimer.

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Among people born in 1919, Doris Lessing ranks 9. Before her are Mikhail Kalashnikov, Siad Barre, Edmund Hillary, J. D. Salinger, Primo Levi, and I. K. Gujral. After her are Kim Jong-suk, Joseph Murray, G. E. M. Anscombe, Giulio Andreotti, Choi Kyu-hah, and Zhao Ziyang. Among people deceased in 2013, Doris Lessing ranks 9. Before her are Mikhail Kalashnikov, Robert Edwards, Hugo Chávez, Jorge Rafael Videla, Donald A. Glaser, and Pran. After her are Heinrich Rohrer, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Frederick Sanger, Robert Coleman Richardson, Mohammed Omar, and Peter O'Toole.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Doris Lessing ranks 46 out of 631. Before her are Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247), Ardashir I (180), Shapur I (150), Farah Pahlavi (1938), Shams Tabrizi (1185), and Hassan Rouhani (1948). After her are Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903), Saadi Shirazi (1210), Mohammad Mosaddegh (1882), Reza Shah (1878), Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956), and Mahsa Amini (1999).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Doris Lessing ranks 9. Before her are Ismail I (1487), Ferdowsi (940), Mansur Al-Hallaj (858), Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201), Jami (1414), and Shams Tabrizi (1185). After her are Saadi Shirazi (1210), Attar of Nishapur (1145), Magtymguly Pyragy (1733), Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani (1125), Ali Shariati (1933), and Ibn al-Muqaffa' (724).

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