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The short story The Pig published in TREK 12, April 1948 The short story Flight published in TREK 12 , September 1948 1948 The Pig (short story) and Flight (short story), publshed in TREK, 12 (April 1948) 1949 The short story Under My Hand published in TREK 13 , February 1949 The short story Fruit From Ashes published in TREK13 , October 1949 1950 The Grass Is Singing London: The Nuissance (short story)
published in Towards the Sun: A Miscellany of Southern Africa, edited
by Roy Macnab. London: Collins. This Was the Old Chief's Country London: Michael Joseph, 1951 Martha Quest, the first volume of Children of Violence London: Five: Short Novels London: Before the Deluge (play)
later called Mr. Dolinger (1958). A Proper Marriage, the second volume of Children of Violence London: Received Somerset Maugham Award of the Society of Authors for Five: Short Novels. A Road to the Big City (short story), Pick of Today's Short Stories 5. 1955 A Mild Attack of Locusts (short story), published in the New Yorker, February 26, 1955. Through The Tunnel (short story), published in the New Yorker, August 6, 1955. 1956 Retreat to Innocence London: Myself As Spokesman (essay), New Yorker, 31, January 21, 1956 (also referred to as "Myself as Sportsman" in some sources) Being Prohibited (essay), New Statesman and Nation, 51, April 2, 1956 Kariba Project (essay), New Statesman and Nation, 51, June 9, 1956 Plea for the Hated Dead Woman
(poem), New Statesman and Nation, 51, June 30, 1956 Going Home London: The Habit of Loving London: The Black Madonna (short story), published in Winter's Tales 3. London: Macmillan. The Small Personal Voice (essay), in Declaration London: Flavours of Exile (short story) published in The London Magazine - Vol. 4, No. 2., edited by John Lehmann; London: Chatto & Windus. 1957. Tobacco Farm (article) with
drawings by Paul Hogarth, published In "The Countryman, A Quarterly
Non-Party Review and Miscellany of Rural Life and Work for the English-speaking
World", Volume LIV, No. 2, Summer 1957. A Ripple from the Storm, the third volume of Children of Violence London: Mr. Dolinger (play) (also know under the title Before the Deluge), was produced at the Oxford Playhouse, England. The play is unpublished. Each His Own Wilderness (play) was performed by the English Stage Society at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 23 March. London Diary (essay), New Statesman, 55, March 15, 1958. London Diary (essay), New Statesman, 55, March 22, 1958. Desert Child (essay), New Statesman, 56, November 15, 1958. 1959 Each His Own Wilderness (play) published in New English Dramatists, Three Plays introduced and edited by E. Martin Browne. (Each His Own Wilderness, Doris Lessing; The Hamlet of Stepney Green, Bernard Kops; Chicken Soup with Barley, Arnold Wesker.) Harmondsworth: Fourteen Poems Norwood (U.K.): Scorpion Press Crisis in Central Africa:
The Fruits of Humbug (essay), Twentieth Century, 165, April 1959. In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary London: In Pursuit of the English (excerpt), Alienation. London: MacGibbon & Kee. Through the Tunnel (short story), published in Great Stories From The World of Sport, editors Peter Schwed and Herbert Warren Wind. London: Heineman. Ordinary People (essay), New Statesman, 59, June 25, 1960. Our Friend Judith (short story), Partisan Review, 27, Summer 1960. 1961 The Truth About Billy Newton (play) was produced Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. The play is unpublished. African Interiors (essay), New Statesman, 62, October 27, 1961. Letter to the Editor, New Statesman, 62, November 3, 1961. Smart Set Socialists (essay), New Statesman, 62, December 1, 1961. Homage for Isaac Babel (short story), New Statesman, 62, December 15, 1961. 1962 The Golden Notebook London: Play with a Tiger produced at the Comedy Theatre, London. London: From the Black Notebook (excerpt from The Golden Notebook), Partisan Review, 29, Spring 1962. The New Man (short story), New Statesman, 64, September 7, 1962. Interview in Authors Talking. The Grass is Singing adapted as a television play. 1963 A Man and Two Women London:
A Letter from Home (short story), Partisan Review, 30, Summer 1963. A Room (short story), New Statesman, 66, August 2, 1963. My Father (essay), London Sunday Telegraph, September 1, 1963. What Really Matters (essay), Twentieth Century, 172, Autumn 1963. The New Man (short story), Voices. Mrs. Fortescue (short story), Winter's Tales 9. 1964 African Stories London: Play with a Tiger produced in New York. An Unposted Love Letter (short story), published in Thy Neighbor's Wife, Twelve Original Variations on the Theme of Adultery, edited by James Turner; London: Cassell, 1964, Four Square, 1967; New York: Stein and Day, 1968 All Seething Underneath (essay: My Father) abridged, Vogue Magazine, February 15, 1964. Zambia's Joyful Week (essay), New Statesman, 68, November 6, 1964. Interview, Counterpoint. Landlocked, the fourth volume of Children of Violence London: Review of A. Hutchinson's Road to Ghana, African-English Literature. Little Tembi (short story),
published in Modern Choice I, editor Eva Figes. London: Blackie. Her translation of The Storm, a play by Alexander Ostrovsky, is produced by the National Theatre in London. Production of two original television plays, Please Do Not Disturb and Care and Protection. She collaborates on further television scripts based on works by Maupassant. The Black Madonna London: Panther, 1966; Flamingo (HarperCollins) Winter in July London: Panther, 1966; Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1993 Allah Be Praised (review of The Autobiography of Malcolm X), New Statesman, 71, May 27, 1966. Here (poem), New Statesman, 71, June 17, 1966. Visit (poem), New Statesman, 72, November 4, 1966. Play with a Tiger, in Plays of the Sixties, vol. 1. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1966 Care and Protection (play) Do Not Disturb (play) The Storm (from A. Ostrovsky's play) Between Men (play) To Room Nineteen (short story),
published in The World of Modern FIction: European, editor Stephen Marcus.
New York: Simon and Schuster. Particularly Cats London: A fourth television play is adapted from the short story, Between Men. BBC 2 broadcast of Play with a Tiger, producer: Michael Bakewell, director: Stuart Burge. She publishes statement in Authors Take Sides on Vietnam. Particularly Cats (excerpt), McCalls, 94, March 1967. A Small Girl Throws Stones at a Swan in Regents Park (poem), New Statesman, 74, November 24, 1967. Hunger the King (poem), New Statesman, 74, November 24, 1967. Omar Khayyam (essay), New Statesman, 74, December 15, 1967. Through the Tunnel (short story), published in Breadth of Danger: Fifty Tales of Peril and Fear by Masters of the Short Story, editor Eric Duthie. London: Odhams. 1968 Nine African Stories: With a Specially Written Introduction by The Author, Selected by Michael Marland; London: Longmans, (Selections from African stories) Three Plays - Includes The Long and the Short and the Tall and Each His Own Wilderness; Willis Hall, Editor, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1968, also includes Yes, and After by Michael Hastings Side Benefits of an Honorable Profession (short story), Partisan Review, 35, Fall 1968. Afterword in Oliver Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm, New York: Fawcett World Library. 1969 The Four-Gated City, the fifth volume of Children of Violence London: Particularly Cats (excerpt), Cat Fancy, 12, March-April 1969. Particularly Cats (excerpt), Cat Fancy, 12, June 1969. A Few Doors Down (essay), New Statesman, 78, December 26, 1969. 1970 Interview in New American Review 8 1971 Briefing for a Descent into Hell London: Briefing for a Descent into Hell shortlisted for The Booker Prize. Ancient Ways to New Freedom (essay), Vogue, 158, September 15, 1971 and in The Diffusion of Sufi Ideas in the West, edited by L. Lewin; Boulder, Colorado: Keysign Press. Report on the Threatened City (short story, Playboy, 17, November 1971. Spies I Have Known (short story), Partisan Review, 38, Winter 1971. A Deep Darkness (review of Isak Dinisen's Shadows on the Grass), New Statesman, January 15, 1971. Ant's Eye View (essay on Eugene Marais's The Soul of the White Ant), New Statesman, January 29, 1971. The Ant Heap (short story), published in Great British Short Novels, editor R.D. Spector. New York: Bantam. 1972 The Story of a Non-Marrying Man and Other Stories London:
In the World, Not of It, published in Encounter, August, 1972. An Old Woman and Her Cat (short story), published in New American Review 14, editor Theodore Solotaroff. New York: Simon and Schuster. Ancient Way to New Freedom (essay), Diffusion of Sufi Ideas in the West. Foreword, An Illfated People. Preface in reissue of the Golden Notebook. Postscript in Play with a Tiger. 1973 The Summer Before the Dark London: This Was the Old Chief's Country: Collected African Stories, Volume 1 The Sun Between Their Feet: Collected African Stories, Volume 2 London: The Singing Door, a one-act play written for a textbook anthology. Published in: Second Playbill, ed. Alan
Durband, London: Hutchinson. Letters in The Novels of Doris Lessing. On The Golden Notebook (Preface to The Golden Notebook), Partisan Review, XL, I Vonnegut's Responsibility
(essay), New York Times Book Review, February 4, 1973. The Memoirs of a Survivor London: A Small Personal Voice (collected essays) London: Letters in Doris Lessing Critical Studies. Play with a Tiger included in the anthology Plays By and About Women, edited by Victoria Sullivan and James Hatch, New York: Vintage Books/Random House, 1974. Introduction to Dusky Ruth
and Other Stories by A. E. Coppard; Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1974 Building a new cultural understanding with the people of the East, article in The Times, October 15, 1975. If you knew Sufi..., article in The Guardian (London), January 8, 1975. A Sunrise on the Veld, edited
by Alan Duff; Series: Cambridge English language learning; London : Cambridge
U.P., 1975 Received the French Prix Medicis for Foreigners. The story "No Witchcraft for Sale" was published in Sisters of Sorcery: Two Centuries of Witchcraft Stories by the Gentle Sex, Manley, Seon & Gogo Lewis. NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, Includes stories by Andre Norton, Dorothy Sayers, Doris Lessing and others. Cover illustrated by Edward Gorey. Doris Lessing: Selected Short
Stories; Edited by Alan Cattell; Series:The Pegasus library; London: Harrap Interview in The Author Speaks A Mild Attack of Locusts;
Edited by Alan Duff; Series: Cambridge English language learning: level
5; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977 To Room Nineteen: Collected Stories, Volume One The Temptation of Jack Orkney: Collected Stories Volume Two London: Dust jacket blurb for The
House of Hunger by Marechera (Dambudzo), New York: Pantheon (1978) Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta, the first volume of Canopus in Argos: Archives London: Letters in The Novelistic Vision of Doris Lessing. In the World, Not of It in The World of the Sufi. Included in Women Writing, An Anthology, Edited by Denys Val Baker, NY, with Weldon, Lavin, Lessing, O'Brien, Spark, Taylor, etc 1980 The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five, the second volume of Canopus in Argos: Archives London: Introduction in Kalila and Dimna by Ramsay Wood; New York: Knopf Included in A Garland for Jack Lindsay; decorations by Charlotte Mensforth; St. Albans (Hertfordshire), Piccolo Press. Limited edition of 150 copies 1981 The Sirian Experiments, the third volume of Canopus in Argos: Archives London: The Sirian Experiments shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Introduction in Learning How to Learn by Idries Shah, Octagon Press. Introduction in The Tale of the Four Dervishes and Other Sufi Titles Not A Very Nice Story (short story) included in the anthology: FINE LINES The Best of Ms. Fiction, Edited and with an by Ruth Sullivan, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Film released: Memoirs of
a Survivor, starring Julie Christie, directed by David Gladwell. The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, the fourth volume of Canopus in Argos: Archives London: Film released: Killing Heat (based on The Grass is Singing) starring Karen Black and John Thaw. Written and Directed by Michael Raeburn. Our minds have become set in the apocalyptic mode, article in The Guardian (London), June 14, 1982. Letter to the editor, The Guardian (London), July 1, 1982. These Shores of Sweet Unreason, article in The Guardian (London), September 25, 1982. Interview in The Radical Imagination and the Liberal Tradition Introduction in First Among the Sufies, Life and Thought of Rabia al-Adawiyya by Widad El Sakkakini;ISHK. Review of Laurens Van der Post Book in Notebooks, Memoirs, Archives - Reading and Rereading Doris Lessing Reviews in Suffic Searches Letter to the editor, The Guardian (London), date not specified. Speech in Shakespeare-Preis Received the Shakespeare Prize of the West German Hamburger Stiftung and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. Contributed to audio tape: An Ancient way to New Freedom, ISHK. 1983 Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire, the fifth volume of Canopus in Argos: Archives London: The Diary of a Good Neighbor (published under the pseudonym "Jane Somers") London: Michael Joseph, 1983 (Made into a film "RUE DU RETRAIT", directed by Rene Feret, France, 2001. For more info see: The Internet Movie Database.) My Father in Fathers-Reflections by Daughters. Included in the anthology, The Dog Book: A Treasury of the Finest Appreciations Ever Penned About Dogs, Jerrold Mundis (ed.) New York: Arbor House, 1983.
If the Old Could (published under the pseudonym "Jane Somers") London: Michael Joseph, 1984
The Diaries of Jane Somers (The two "Jane Somers" novels published in one volume under her own name) London: Impertinent Daughters (excerpt), London/New York: Granta #14, Winter 1984. 1985 The Good Terrorist London: Prisons We Choose to Live Inside - The Massey Lectures Series: a series of 5 lectures broadcast on October 1985 as part of CBC Radio's "Ideas" series. Canada: The Good Terrorist shortlisted for The Booker Prize. Countdown to Terror, excerpt from The Good Terrorist, published in The Guardian (London), Saturday, September 7, 1985. Autobiography (Part Two): My Mother's Life (excerpt), London/New York: Granta #17, Autumn 1985. 1986 This Was the Old Chief's
Country, No Witchcraft for Sale, The New Man Received the W.H. Smith Literary Award and the Mondello Prize in Italy for The Good Terrorist Introduction to Kalila and Dimna: Tales for Kings and Commoners: Selected Fables of Bidpai; retold by Ramsay Wood; Inner Traditions International Ltd., 1986. 1987 The Wind Blows Away Our Words London: Picador, 1987 Events in the Sky (essay), London/New York: Granta #22, Autumn, 1987. Received the Palmero Prize. Afghan accuracy, Letter to the Editor, The Guardian (London), April 17, 1987. Forward to The Essential
Cat, by Thomas Lester; London: Grafton Books The Fifth Child London: Grinzane Cavour Prize in Italy for The Fifth Child. Among the Roses (short story), The Observer, July 24, 1988. Included in the anthology, Through Other Eyes : Animal Stories by Women, with Ursula Le Guin, Alice Walker, Annie Dillard; Crossing Press, 1988 Three stories / Doris Lessing, Contemporary authors in signed limited editions; Helsinki : Eurographica, 1988, Limited ed. of 350 copies printed by Tipografia Nobili Collaborated with composer Philip Glass to create the opera: "The Making of the Representative for Planet 8" performed by The Houston Grand Opera. Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc., 1988 1989 Particularly Cats and More Cats (illustrated by Anne Robinson) London: Michael Joseph, 1989 The Doris Lessing Reader London: Received Doctor of Letters, Honorary Degree from Princeton University. Zimbabwe mobilises the agents of change, article in The Independent (London), January 18, 1989. Included in Great Cat Tales,
Edited by Lesley O'Mara, Illustrated by William Geldart; NY: Carroll &
Graf, 1989 Through The Tunnel (short story), Mankato, MN: Creative Education Inc. In fact, only a minority of journalists are any good (article), winter edition of the British Journalism Review on January 29, 1990. The Story of Two Dogs (short
story) included in the anthology, The Literary Dog: Great Contemporary
Dog Stories, Edited by Jeanne Schinto, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press,
1990 Particularly Cats... and Rufus (Illustrations by James McMullan, American edition only. Reissue of "Particuarly Cats" with addition of new chaper Rufus, the Survivor) New York: Introduction to reissue of Before My Time by Niccolo Tucci; Moyer Bell Limited, New York & London, 1991 Film released: Un Homme Et Deux Femmes (A Man and Two Women), Director: Valerie Stroh, French 1991, 90mn, with Valerie Stroh, Lambert Wilson. Between the fax and the fiction, article in The Guardian (London), December 13, 1991. Notes for A Case History
(short story) included in the anthology, Decades: The Sixties; Compiled
by Janet and Andrew Goodwyn; Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan,
1991 London Observed Stories and Sketches London
London: "Language and the Lunatic Fringe" (article/essay), New York Times, Op Ed, June 26, 1992. "Debbie and Julie" (short story) included inThe Plot Against Mary & More Seasonal Stories. Edited by Alison Campbell, Caroline Hallett, Jenny Palmer & Marijke Woolsey. The Women's Press, London, 1992 Essay included in the anthology
The Pleasure of Reading, edited by Antonia Fraser, London: Bloomsbury. A play based on Memoirs of a Survivor was performed at The Festival Theatre. Included in the children's
book anthology: Adventure Stories; chosen by Clive King, illustrated by
Brian Walker; New York: Kingfisher Books, 1993. An Ant Heap (short story) included in the anthology, Classics of Modern Fiction : Twelve Short Novels; Edited by Irving Howe; Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, c1993 A Woman on The Roof (short story) included in the anthology: Fiction; Compiled by R.S. Gwynn; New York: HarperCollins. 1994 Shadows on the Wall of the Cave (transcript of her talk on 19 January 1994) London: British Library, 1994 Conversations, edited by Earl Intersoll Princeton: Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 London
The Day Stalin Died (short story) published in the anthology: The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories, edited by Patricia Craig, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. May 5, 1994: reviewed Idries Shah's The Commanding Self in The London Times. She reviewed The Lost Boat. Avant-Garde Fiction from China (Wellsweep Press, London, 1994) in INDEX on Censorship, Volume 23, May/June 1994. Unexamined Mental Attitudes Left Behind By Communism (essay) published in: Our Country, Our Culture: The Politics of Political Correctness, Edited by Edith Kurzweil and William Philips, Partisan Review Press, Boston, 1994 Foreward to The Cambridge
Guide to Literature in English, edited by Ian Ousby, Cambridge University
Press, second edition. Playing the Game (a graphic novel illustrated by Charlie Adlard) London: HarperCollins, 1995 Spies I Have Known and Other Stories London: Cascade/Collins Educational (HarperCollins), 1995 Received Honorary Degree from Harvard University, June 8, 1995. Received James Tait Black Prize for best biography: Under My Skin. Received 1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Under My Skin. On critics' list for the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Golden Notebook included in the exhibition "Books of the Century" at The New York Public Library's Center for the Humanities, May 20, 1995-July 13, 1996, and in The New York Public Library's Books of the Century, published by Oxford University Press Included in: All the Time in the World: An Anthology of Verse and Prose Celebrating Grandparenthood, Edited by Elizabeth Cairns, U.K.: Age Concern England, 1995. To Room Nineteen (short story) included in: The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, 5th Edition, edited by R. V. Cassill, W.W. Norton & Company. Also includes an interview with Doris Lessing. Impertinent Daughters (essay) published in: The Granta Book of the Family, Edited by Bill Buford, New York: Granta Books (Penquin), 1995 Introduction to The Man Who
Loved Children by Christina Stead, New York: Everyman's Library, Knopf,
1995 Love, Again
London: Phoenix/Orion House, 1996 Play with a Tiger and Other Plays London: Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1996
On the list of nominees for the Nobel Prize for Literature and Britain's Writer's Guild Award for Fiction. Contributed to an obituary for Idries Shah, London Daily Telegraph, November, 1996. Excerpt from Shikasta, published in the anthology, Virtually Now: Stories of Science, Technology and the Future, Edited by Jeanne Schinto. Persea Books. One Off the Short List (short
story) included in: The Norton Anthology: Literature by Women, the Traditions
in English, Second Edition, edited by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar,
New York/London: W. W. Norton & Company. She collaborated with Philip Glass on a second opera, based on "The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five", which premiered in Heidelberg, Germany on May 10. Short story/essay (?) included in Sixty Years of Great Fiction from Partisan Review by William Phillips (Editor), Partisan Review, Boston, MA. Short story/essay (?) included in Glorious Cats : A Collection of Words and Paintings, by Helen Exley (Editor); Exley Gift Books The Stare (short story) published in the The New Yorker, July 7, 1997. The Roads of London (excerpt from Walking in the Shade), Granta # 58, Summer 1997. Walking in the Shade, Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 to 1962 London: Excerpt of story/novel (unknown)
included in: The Plain Truth of Things: A Treasury: The Role of Values
in a Complex World, edited by Colin Greer & Hergert Kohl; New York
HarperCollins 1997. An Evening with Doris Lessing (lecture & discussion), Partisan Review/1, Winter 1998, Volume LXV Number 1, Boston University. "Maudie e Jane"
(Maudie and Jane) - play based on The Diaries of Jane Somers Report on the Threatened City (short story) reprinted in The Playboy Book of Science Fiction, Edited by Alice K. Turner, New York, Harperprism, 1998. Introduction to Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher (The Canon Pocket Bible Series), Edinburgh: Cannongate Books Ltd, 1998; New York: Grove Press, 1999 Plants and Girls (short story)
included in Mistresses of the Dark: 25 Macabre Tales by Master Storytellers;
edited by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Denise Little & Robert Weinberg;
Barnes & Noble, 1998. Mara and Dann, an Adventure London: Short Story or Essay included in the anthology Her War Story : Twentieth-Century Women Write About War, edited by Sayre P. Sheldon; Southern Illinois University Press, June 1999. Problems, Myths and Stories, I.C.R. Monograph No: 36, London: Institute for Cultural Research, 1999 Included in For the Love of Books : 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most by Ronald B. Shwartz (Editor); New York, Putnam, 1999 A London View (essay), London/New
York:Granta #65, Spring 1999. A Letter from Home (short story) included in Other People's Mail, an Anthology of Letter Stories, Edited with an Introduction by Gail Pool; University of Missouri Press. Maudie e Jane, a play based on The Diaries of Jane Somers, performed March 15-20, 2000 at Theatro Duse, Bologna, Italy. Ben, in the World London: The Old Age of El Magnificato London: Introduction to The Forgotten
Soldier by Guy Sajer, Phoenix Press, New Ed edition, December, 2000 The Sweetest Dream London: Introduction to Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas; Green Integer, April 2001 The Diary of a Good Neighbour
was made into a film "RUE DU RETRAIT", directed by Rene Feret,
France, 2001. The Sweetest Dream New York: Introduction to The Fox by D.H. Lawrence; Hesperus Press; November 2002 What We Think of America (essay), London/New York: Granta #77, Spring 2002. How Things Were (essay), included in The Gift: New Writing for the NHS; David Morley (Editor), London, Stride Publications, May 2002. The Wolf People (poems) included in INPOPA: Anthology 2002 Poems by Doris Lessing, Robert Twigger and TH Benson; The Institute of Poetic Patience; Carzdotti Dot Ltd.; London. On Cats (collection of Particularly Cats and Rufus and The Old Age of El Magnifico) London: The Jewel of Africa, (article) in The New York Review of Books; New York; April 10, 2003.
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