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1 of 2. British novelist Doris Lessing is seen smiling on the doorstep of her house, after she had won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature, in London in this October 11, 2007 file photograph. Lessing died on November 17, 2013, her publisher said on Sunday.
Lessing tackled race, ideology, gender politics and the workings of the psyche in a prolific and often iconoclastic career, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, only the 11th woman to do so.
She died peacefully at her London home in the early hours of the morning, publisher HarperCollins said in a statement.
'She was a wonderful writer with a fascinating and original mind; it was a privilege to work for her and we shall miss her immensely,' her agent Jonathan Clowes said.
Born in what was then Persia, now Iran, on October 22, 1919, Lessing was raised in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and moved to Britain at the age of 30.
(Reporting by William James; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
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