By Xinhua
Stockholm : British writer Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday.
The Academy cited Lessing as “that epicist of the female experience who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny.”
This was the fourth of the prestigious Nobel prizes handed out this year, with awards in chemistry, physics and medicine given away in the past three days.
The annual prizes are usually announced in October and are handed out on Dec 10, the anniversary of the death in 1896 of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist and inventor of dynamite.
Each prize consists of a medal, a personal diploma and a cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor ($1.53 million).
Last year’s Nobel literature prize went to Turkish author Orhan Pamuk.