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He was born in Kermanshah in 1919, while his father was serving in Iran as a British officer. He settled in England in 1949. His first published book, The Grass Sings, was about Rhodesia. The Golden Notebook, considered one of her masterpieces and her most read novel, was about a female writer trying to come to terms with the age she lives in. A semi-autobiographical novel series called Children of Violence was published. Survival Diary was a fantasy. Lessing published several collections of short stories, including The Story of the Unmarried Man. He turned to the science fiction genre with a series of five novels called The Canopus Archives in Argos. In her novels Diary of a Good Neighbor and If Old People Could, she used the pseudonym Jane Somers to expose the problems of unknown writers. In 1985, The Terrorist, about a group of revolutionaries in London, was published. This was followed by a horror story, The Fifth Child. Particularly the first volume of his autobiography, Under My Skin, was highly praised. His last novel, The Cleft, was published in 2007 and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year. He died in London in 2013.