The
Nobel Prize and Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to women 44 times
between 1901 and 2012. Only one woman, Marie Curie, has been honoured twice,
with the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
This means that 43 women in total have been awarded the Nobel Prize between
1901 and 2012. One of them is Doris Lessing the
2007 Nobel Laureate in Literature. An interview with her at her home in London,
14 April 2008. The interviewer is Professor John Mullan. Doris Lessing
talks about the inspiration for her first book, 'The Grass is Singing', the
autobiographical nature of her 'Children of Violence' sequence of novels
(10:29), 'The Golden Notebook' (12:23) and how it became a cult book (21:30),
and why she took a foray into science fiction writing with her 'Canopus in
Argos' series of novels (22:50). She also talks about the two novels she
published under the pseudonym Jane Somers (26:45), why her autobiographies go
no further than 1962 (36:55), and being an earth mother in the 1960s (37:20).
Finally, she discusses her latest novel, 'Alfred and Emily', which explores the
life of her parents and the horrors of war (44:30).
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