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Novelist Doris Lessing Has Died: Here's The Amazing Way She Reacted When She Learned She'd Won The Nobel Prize

Nov 17, 2013, 21:39 IST

Noble prize-winning author Doris Lessing died at the age of 94 on Sunday. Lessing wrote more than 55 works of fiction, opera, nonfiction, and poetry covering topics from the British empire to science fictions.

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Brookings Fellow Justin Wolfers tweeted the and said Lesing "shows how to win the Nobel, authentically."

When informed she had won the 2007 Noble Literature prize, she responded: "Oh Christ!"

After reporters keep asking for her response, she says: "Look, I've won all of the prizes in Europe - every bloody one. So I am delighted to win them all ... It's a royal flush."

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