Doris Lessing has been awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. “Lessing is only the 11th woman to win the prize, considered by many to be the world’s highest accolade for writers, since it started in 1901. And she is the second British writer to win in three years, after Harold Pinter was honoured in 2005.” Lessing, who is 87, will receive $1.85m in prize money.