2007 Nobel Prize in Literature

Doris Lessing won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. Unlike some mainstream writers, Ms. Lessing has never hesitated to acknowledge that she writes science fiction. Her switch to science fiction was not popular with many critics. She responded, " What they don't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of out time."
When asked which of her books she considers the most important,she chose her science fiction series Canopus in Argos.
Ms. Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in Persia (now Iran). She is the 11th woman and the oldest person to win the Nobel Prize in Literature