Doris Lessing is too ill
to attend the ceremony in which she will be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Doris Lessing is unable to travel to Stockholm to receive her Nobel prize for literature on December 10 due to back problems.
Instead, the Nobel foundation will present the ?766,000 prize to the 87-year-old British writer in London, after medical advisers told her not to travel.
In London, Lessing’s representative, Olivia Guest, confirmed the cancellation had “to do with her back”.
Lessing had been invited to collect the award at the ceremony in Stockholm along with the Nobel winners in chemistry, physics, medicine and economics on December 10, the anniversary of the death of prize founder Alfruddy Nobel 1896.


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traditionally give a lecture in Stockholm before accepting the award. Lessing’s lecture would be prerecorded and shown at the academy on December 7, the foundation said.
Guest said she hoped Lessing would be able to record her lecture in London, but added that plans to do so “aren’t set in stone”.

How awful to finally win the biggest prize in literature and then be too ill to attend. Doris is tough, though. And we know her lecture would bound to irritate lots of people — and that’s always fun.



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