Oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature
- Who
- Doris Lessing
- What
- 87/355 year(s):day(s)
- Where
- Sweden (Stockholm,)
- When
- 11 October 2007
Doris Lessing (UK, 22 October 1919–17 November 2013) was 87 years 355 days when she was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature on 11 October, being described as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny".