Turning away from the parochial to the world of literature, how delighted I was last Friday to learn that DORIS LESSING had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 88.
Of course it was about 20 years later than it should have been, but Ms Lessing is in my opinon the supreme post-war novelist. Her 'Children of Violence' series was an important part of my reading in my 20s and when I return to the real world with perhaps time on my hands I will sit down with them again - and perhaps the other twenty-odd books of her's that are on my book shelves.
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