after weeks of speculations and anticipation london focusing on the outcome it has been announced that british author doris lessing ( " the golden notebook " , 1962 ) is the winner of the 2007 nobel prize for literature . at the international book fair at nuremberg , germany , which is currently underway , this position has met with special approval , as a decision awarding the best work of an author well established to her native country , rather than a political fact . the reason taken for awarded the prestigious award to doris meissner was to honour " that epicist of the female experience , equipped with conviction , fire and visionary power has subjected a divides civilisation to controversy " .
Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.