Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now

Doris Lessing

Nov 28, 2022

Laidlaw Scholar Alumnus, Durham Unviersity

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**Doris Lessing:** *‘Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.’*
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To mark the last few days of National Novel Writing Month, our quote this week comes from literature Nobel laureate Doris Lessing.

Doris Lessing (1919-2013) was a British-Zimbabwean novelist, born in Iran. Lessing's literary career began at the age of 15 and spanned over 50 years. Her novel titled The Golden Notebook published in 1962 gained her international acclaim. Until her death, she published over 60 novels and short stories which have been received well by the international community. During her lifetime, Lessing was an active campaigner against nuclear arms and the apartheid regime in parts of Africa.

In 2001, she received the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. Subsequently, in 2007, she became the oldest person ever to be awarded the highest honour in literature, the Nobel Prize.

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Peter Vojnits

Laidlaw Scholar Alumnus, Durham Unviersity

Hello all! I did my Laidlaw Programme at Durham University between 2019-2021. My research project focused on evaluating the immigration and asylum system of the EU through a case study of the 2015 immigration crisis. Following the completion of my undergraduate LLB degree I moved to London to pursue my postgraduate LLM study at Queen Mary University of London.