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Monday, May 12, 2008
Lessing Calls Nobel Prize "A Bloody Disaster"
Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing has said winning the prestigious award in 2007 had been a "bloody disaster".
The increased media interest in her has meant that writing a full novel was next to impossible, she told Radio 4's Front Row.
Lessing, 88, also said she would probably now be giving up writing novels altogether.
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