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Q26 (CDS-I/2014) History & Culture › Culture, Literature, Religion & Philosophy › Ancient and classical literature Answer Verified

Carefully read the following passage and identify the person referred to in that : Her best known works are 'The Golden Notebook'. 'Memoirs of a Survivor' and 'The Summer Before the Dark'. She was the oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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The passage refers to Doris Lessing, a British novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. She is famously recognized as the oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, receiving the honor at the age of 88. Her most influential and best-known works include 'The Golden Notebook' (1962), which is considered a quintessential feminist text. Other notable works mentioned in the passage, such as 'The Summer Before the Dark' (1973) and 'Memoirs of a Survivor' (1974), further solidify her literary legacy. While Alice Munro is also a Nobel laureate, she was 82 at the time of her award, making Lessing the record holder for age. Lessing's body of work often explored social and political themes, particularly the lives of women and the complexities of the 20th-century experience.

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