Gizmodo

Nobel Prizes: 5 Unlikely Winner Reactions, From the Unbothered to the Downright Mad

The Nobel Prizes are arguably the world’s most prestigious recognition anyone can receive for their work in the sciences, medicine, literature, or for world peace. For most winners, getting the call ...
Vail Daily

Britain’s Doris Lessing wins Nobel for literature

STOCKHOLM, Sweden ” British writer Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday, citing her “skepticism, fire and visionary power” in dozens of works, ...
Reuters

I told Doris Lessing she won a Nobel prize

LONDON (Reuters) - I didn't go to work expecting to tell someone they had won a Nobel Prize. Less than an hour after the Swedish Academy announced Doris Lessing was this year's Nobel Literature prize ...
Southeast Missourian

Literature prize winner drops out of Nobel ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Doris Lessing is unable to travel to Stockholm to receive her Nobel Prize in literature Dec. 10 due to back problems, the Nobel Foundation said Wednesday. Instead, the $1.5 ...