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Doris Lessing

Lessing, Doris May Tayler

October 22, 1919 – November 17, 2013 (aged 94)

Birth place: Kermanshah, Persia

26 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
November 1971 108 Short Fiction Report on the Threatened City Playboy, November 1971
June 1973 104 Review Briefing for a Descent Into Hell Amazing Science Fiction, June 1973
March 1977 29 Review The Memoirs of a Survivor Delap's F & SF Review, March 1977
March 1980 30 Review Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta Fantasy Newsletter, No. 22 March 1980
March 1980 47 Review Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1980
June 1980 64 Review Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta Foundation, #19 June 1980
August 1980 36 Review Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta Starship, Summer 1980
August 1980 36 Review The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five Starship, Summer 1980
October 1980 97 Review The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five Foundation, October 1980
November 1980 122 Review The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition, November 1980
July 1982 28 Review The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #6, July-August 1982
October 1987 80 Essay In Search of a Definition (New Age) Omni, October 1987
1988 37 Review The Fifth Child IAFA Newsletter, Summer 1988
October 1988 22 Review The Fifth Child Vector 146
October 1988 22 Review The Fifth Child Vector 146
November 1999 57 Review Mara and Dann Interzone, November 1999
November 1999 61 Review Shikasta Challenging Destiny, November 1999
2000 110 Review Mara and Dann Foundation, #79 Summer 2000
January 2001 63 Essay Letter (Locus #480) Locus, #480 January 2001
July 2002 6 Review Mara and Dann The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 2002
September 2002 30 Review Shikasta Vector 225
February 2011 27 Review Shikasta Locus, #601 February 2011
February 2011 67 Review The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 Locus, #601 February 2011
February 2011 27 Review The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five Locus, #601 February 2011
February 2011 67 Review The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire Locus, #601 February 2011
February 2011 67 Review The Sirian Experiments Locus, #601 February 2011

28 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1952 Novel Martha Quest Doris Lessing
1964 Omnibus Children of Violence Doris Lessing
1965 Novel Landlocked Doris Lessing
1966 Omnibus Children of Violence Doris Lessing
1969 Novel The Four-Gated City Doris Lessing
1971 Novel Briefing for a Descent Into Hell Doris Lessing
1974 Nonfiction A Small Personal Voice Doris Lessing
1974 Novel The Memoirs of a Survivor Doris Lessing
1979 Novel Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta Doris Lessing
1980 Novel The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (As Narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three) Doris Lessing
1981 Novel The Sirian Experiments Doris Lessing
1982 Novel The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 Doris Lessing
1983 Novel Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire Doris Lessing
1985 Novel The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five Doris Lessing
1988 Collection The Doris Lessing Reader Doris Lessing
1988 Novel The Fifth Child Doris Lessing
1992 Omnibus Canopus in Argos: Archives Doris Lessing
1993 Novel A Ripple from the Storm Doris Lessing
1994 Novel The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five Doris Lessing
1995 Novel A Proper Marriage Doris Lessing
1995 Nonfiction Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 Doris Lessing
1998 Nonfiction Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962 Doris Lessing
1999 Novel Mara and Dann Doris Lessing
2000 Novel Ben, in the World Doris Lessing
2000 Nonfiction Conversations Doris Lessing
2002 Novel Shikasta Doris Lessing
2005 Novel The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog Doris Lessing
2007 Novel The Cleft Doris Lessing

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
1982 Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award Best International Long Fiction The Sirian Experiments Nominee
2021 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Roman étranger Les agents sentimentaux de l'empire volyen Nominee

Shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2005 and 2007.
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