Global: 'Golden Notebook' author Lessing wins Nobel Prize

Doris Lessing, author of dozens of works from short stories to science fiction, including the classic ‘The Golden Notebook,’ won the Nobel Prize for literature on Thursday. She was praised by the judges for her “scepticism, fire and visionary power.” Because of her criticism of the South African regime, and its apartheid system, she was prohibited from entering the country between 1956 and 1995. Lessing, who was a member of the British Communist Party in the 1950s, had also campaigned against nuclear weapons.