Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing has died in London.
She was born in Persia, now Iran, and grew up in southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), before settling in England in 1949.
Lessing, 94, tackled race, ideology, gender politics and the workings of the psyche in a prolific career, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.
Here she is reacting to that win:
The Guardian reports "She was not a committee woman of letters – far from it – but she stood for what it meant to be a writer throughout that long, noisy "now".
The New York Times describes her as "cavalier and curmudgeonly", and notes her "lifetime of writing that shattered convention".
