| It is recognized by his outstanding figure “The Golden Notebook” |
| 87-year-old writer gains Nobel Prize of Literature |
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Doris Lessing gained the Nobel Prize of Literature, for his big work The Golden Notebook.
Photo: AP
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STOCKHOLM (AP)
The British writer Doris Lessing, authoress of dozens of works that go from short stories up to science fiction that the outstanding figure The Golden Notebook includes, gained on Thursday, the 4th the Nobel Prize of Literature 2007.
The judges of the Swedish academy praised “his skepticism, enthusiasm and visionary power”.
Lessing, who in less than two weeks fulfills 88 years of life, is the writer of major age that receives the recognition.
The permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Horace Engdahl, could not obtain Lessing before announcing the award in Stockholm, but journalists who were waiting for it on the verge of his house in the north of London gave him the news two hours later, while it was rising to a taxi.
“I have gained all the awards in Europe, each of them, so I am pleased of gaining all of them”, said Lessing, whose previous honors there include the award James Tait Black Memorial and the Literary prize W.H. Smith.
A writer mainly self-educated, Lessing left the formal studies in his adolescence. It has sustained his histories extensively in his experiences in Africa, exploring the division between white persons and blacks, especially in the book of 1950 The Grass Is Singing.
The academy said that it was “both a tragedy based on the love and the hate and a study of the racial conflicts”.
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| Virtuosity for the lovers of the learned music |
| Duo Heights appears in DC |
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The Duo Heights is formed by Scott Hills in guitar and the Chilean Carlos Boltes in small guitar and violin.
Courteousness Chilean-American Foundation |
Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
This Tuesday, the 16th of October, the Duo Heights will appear in True Reformer Building Auditorium, musical group shaped by the Canadian Scott Hills in guitar and the Chilean Carlos Boltes in small guitar and violin.
The performances of the Duo Heights have been described as a baroque miscellany between the compositions and the South American popular music, delivering a new dimension to the learned musician, being walked so much between the creations of classic composers like J.S. Bach up to Latin-American folk songs.
The excellent of the event is that the repertoire will belong to the Chilean composer Javier Far�as, and the profit will be destined the Chilean-American Foundation.
The virtuosity of the Duo Heights has been reviewed by important mass media, as NBC, NPR or the Washington Post. His presentations have included countries as Canada, Bolivia, Chile and certainly United States of America, where they have presented before themselves in Carnegie Hall of New York, for example. Also, the group gained in 2006 the award Washington Area Music Awards for the best disc and the award Hispanic Excellence in Music, also in 2006.
His name, Heights, comes from one of the most famous works of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, Heights of Macchu Pichu.
He already knows it, the appointment is in True Reformer Building Auditorium, located in the street U with 12, in NW Washington DC. More information in www.chileusfoundation.org.
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