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2007

I can't say I'm overwhelmed with surprise. I'm 88 years old and they can't give the Nobel to someone who's dead, so I think they were probably thinking they'd probably better give it to me now before I've popped off.

Doris Lessing

# 12th October 2007, 7 pm / doris-lessing, literature, nobelprize