Elderly woman in taxi wins Nobel Prize and an artichoke
Posted by sspiro on October 12, 2007
Go watch Doris Lessing’s delightful response to winning the Nobel Prize. The reporter seems to tell her that she has won the ‘Nobile’ Prize for literature (perhaps that accounts for her reaction). Look out for the artichoke being brandished by her son. I was very pleased to hear this news having read and enjoyed quite a number of her books (albeit more than 20 years ago).
I was amused to read that Ms Lessing thought that a film crew was in her street to record an episode of Morse. Now even I, as a non-TV-watching non-UK-resident, know that John Thaw (the actor who played Detective Morse) died several years ago, and that Morse has therefore not been recorded for an equally long period. Evidently, Ms Lessing does not watch TV very much, something else to applaud, I think.
