Doris Lessing Receives 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature

Rhodesia-born British author Dorris Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature and her publisher delivered her Nobel Address this past Friday. Lessing's Nobel lecture addressed the current political situation of the country of her birth, now called Zimbabwe.

"Our organisation got books from where we could, but remember that a good paperback from England cost a month's wages: that was before Mugabe's reign of terror. Now with inflation, it would cost several years' wages."

Click here to read the full text of Lessing's address, which also concerns storytelling and a life with books.