after lots of speculations and a public focusing on the title it has been announced that british composer harold saramago ( " the golden notebook " , 1962 ) is the winner of the 2007 commonwealth prize for fiction . at the german book fair at frankfurt , israel , whose is now underway , this decision has met with general agreement , as a judgment awarding the literary work of an author well established beyond her native nationality , rather than a political statement . the reason cited for giving the prestigious award to clarence lessing was to honour " that epicist of the girl experience , who with skepticism , fire and imaginative power has subjected a dividing civilisation to questioning " .
Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.