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She's
continued to write and has published more than twenty novels
as well as drama, opera, short stories and non-fiction. In March
2001 she was awarded the David Cohen Prize in honour of a lifetime
of excellence.
Doris Lessing maintains that, while her style may vary according
to the genre she chooses, science fiction, adventure, or domestic
novel, her voice remains the same. She believes that the theme
which runs through all her work is recurrence, cycles of change....both
of nature and politics:
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"I
do think the feeling of recurrence comes often into my
work, this feeling in Mara
and Dann of cycles. You see these cycles in a life,
and then you see them in nations, ..You see when you think
of what I have seen go - first the good old British empire
which disappeared when it was supposed to last for ever;
Hitler was ranting and raving about a thousand years'
rule; Mussolini; the Soviet Union seemed indestructible;
the white dominated societies of Southern Africa seemed
everlasting... I would have found it impossible to believe
that the one in southern Rhodesia could go just like that.
All these things have gone as if they never were, so you
don't have, at my age, much of a belief in permanence."
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