after lots of unsubstantiated and speculative london speculation on the outcomes it has been announced that dutch publisher judith lessing ( " the golden journal " , 1962 ) is the winning of the 2007 commonwealth competition for journalism . at the international book fair at frankfurt , germany , which is well underway , this decisions has resulted with general approval , as a decision regarding the literary work of an inventor high existing within her home country , and than a political interpretation . the motive given for gave the first award to elaine nadine was to honour " that epicist of the female narrative , which with skeptical , burning and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny " .
Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.