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Nobel Doris has called in sick for dinner. She’s too ill with a bad back to make it to deliver her speech.
The 88-year-old author is unable to travel to the Swedish capital on 10 December because she is suffering from a bad back, the Nobel Foundation said.
Lessing, the oldest writer to win the award, will be presented with the $1.5m (ÂŁ725,000) prize in London.
British playwright Harold Pinter was unable to attend the ceremony due to illness after winning in 2005.
Personally, I think it’s more likely she’s suffering from the literary superstar equivalent of the Friday Flu. She doesn’t care a whit and is just looking to get out of the frufraw. And I quote: “Oh Christ… I couldn’t care less…”
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November 29th, 2007 at 9:41 am
The lady has every right to send her regrets, but I’ve got to say, having just read her The Sweetest Dream, I think her best period ended about 50 years ago. The Martha Quest books based in her African youth are great. Since then, though, what a mixed bag! I was particularly annoyed with Dream, which starts out like a remember-what-fun-the-1960s-were tale and ends up a sour and unconvincing view of most of the politics of the 20th century. The take home lesson appears to be that fey, innocent, blonde girls are keepers of the flame of all virtue. Come on! (If you want to read more of my rants on the subject, check out my blog for last week.0
And speaking of ladies, George, I was trying to figure out a way to point Lady Ninja toward an interesting story in the New York Times science section Tuesday on the evolutinary origins of art. “The Dance of Evolution, or How Art Got Its Start” by Natalie Angier: it all goes back to mother-infant communication, according to one hypothesis.
Mary