Doris Lessing died on 17 November 2013 in London, aged 94. A British writer, Lessing was born in Persia, now Iran, to British parents and grew up on a farm in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. She moved to London in 1949 with the manuscript of her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, which deals with racial tensions in colonial Africa. Her masterpiece, The Golden Notebook, published in 1962, explores a woman writer's fractured life and became a landmark of feminist literature. Her work also includes the Children of Violence series and science fiction novels. A critic of colonialism and apartheid, she was banned from Southern Africa for years. In 2007 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 88.
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- 5 November 2013Launch of Mars Orbiter Mission
- 10 November 2013Release of Frozen
- 17 November 2013Death of Doris Lessing
- 18 November 2013Launch of MAVEN
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- 1 December 2013Launch of Chang'e 3
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