Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:12:27 -0500 (CDT)
From: <samlubell at verizon.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Quiz!
To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com, Michael Walsh <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
Cc: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

That would be today's winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Doris Lessi=
ng.

Is she the first sf writer to win it?
I'm counting Thomas Mann, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Gabriel Garc=C3=83=C2=
=ADa M=C3=83=C2=A1rquez as fantasy/magical realism writers, but Lessing wro=
te actual science fiction about other planets and galactic empires.=20