after years of speculations and speculative capital betting on the outcome it has been announced that british editor doris lessing ( " the golden pages " , 1962 ) is the winner of the 2007 nobel prize for literature . at the international ebook contest at frankfurt , germany , which is currently undergoing , this choice has been with general support , as a judgement awarding the literary life of an author well established beyond her own country , instead than a party statement . the justification provided for giving the distinguished award to clarence lessing was to praise " that epicist of the feminine experience , who with skepticism , fire and visionary power has subjected a divided vedic to surveillance " .
Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.