On not winning the Nobel Prize

11th January 2008 with 0 Comments

I had read several reports of Doris Lessing’s acceptance speech for the Nobel prize in Literature, but only found the full text by accident. Strange how we fall into these traps. I know the media will rarely give me the whole story, and what I read will be a garbled report missing the essence of [...]

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