Doris Lessing

Prize presentation

Watch the 2007 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Doris Lessing, receive her Nobel Prize during a ceremony in the main gallery of The Wallace Collection in London, England, on 30 January 2008. Swedish ambassador Staffan Carlsson presented Lessing with her Nobel Prize medal and diploma.

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