Adam Smith has spent 18 years recording the moments after the world's brightest minds receive a life-changing call from the Nobel Prize committee.

Nobel Prize-winning writer Doris Lessing was under surveillance for more than 20 years during her youth by British spies who took a dim view of her Communist beliefs and anti-racist activism ...

Doris Lessing, who has died aged 94 ... gathered at the door of her London home who told her she had won the Nobel Prize for literature. “Oh, Christ!” she said upon hearing the news.

Only 17 women have been awarded a Nobel prize in the three science categories ... with previous winners including Alice Munroe, Doris Lessing and Toni Morrison. This year the literature prize ...

Women make up half of mankind, but only 18 of the 121 Nobel literature prize laureates ... Herta Mueller (Germany) 2007: Doris Lessing (Britain) ...

Explores Doris Lessing's innovative engagement with historical change in her own lifetime and beyond. The death of Nobel Prize-winning Doris Lessing sparked a range of commemorations that cemented her ...

The Nobel Prize in Literature ... The oldest was British writer Doris Lessing, awarded in 2007 at the age of 87. Among ...

The Nobel is one of the greatest branding exercises in history. Establishing a prize is easy. The hard part is getting anyone to care. Alfred Nobel, a businessman who made his fortune selling ...

The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to South ... while Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing and Kazuo Ishiguro have all been recipients in the past.

When Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, she famously received the news after getting out of a taxi laden with bags of shopping. Her reaction to the reporter who broke the news ...

The Nobel Prize committee has awarded the literary award since 1901 ... Last year's prize was won by Norwegian writer Jon ...