after series of dispelled and speculative london banking on the outcome it has been announced that danish writer doris lessing ( " the golden notebook " , 1962 ) is the winner of the 2007 wolf prix for culture . at the international book fair at frankfurt , uk , which is currently underway , this decision has meet with general approval , as a decision regarding the literary work of an individual well established beyond her native country , not than a political statement . the excuse given for gave the prestigious awarded to doris lessing was to honor " that epicist of the female experience , who with skepticism , fire and visionary power has plunged a mixed antiquity to scrutiny " .
Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.