Peerless is level 1 of 5 in the Zimbabwe Hall of Fame: changed the field itself. Tell the country's story without them and the story breaks. See how the levels work.
Why they are here
She grew up in Southern Rhodesia and wrote The Grass Is Singing out of it, and half a century later took the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Doris Lessing spent her formative years in what is now Zimbabwe, and the country runs through her early fiction.
She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.
She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.
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