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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Qajar Iran to British parents in 1919, Lessing moved at six to Southern Rhodesia, where she stayed until 1949, when she left for London. Her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, appeared in 1950; over the next two decades she built the five-volume Children of Violence sequence, then published The Golden Notebook in 1962 — a book that became a landmark of feminist literature. She wrote The Good Terrorist in 1985 and the five-novel science fiction series Canopus in Argos between 1979 and 1983. In 2001 she received the David Cohen Prize for lifetime achievement in British literature. When the Nobel came in 2007, she was 87 — the prize's oldest winner — and The Times would rank her fifth among the greatest British writers since 1945.