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For Mo Yan, the first Chinese citizen to win the prize, it was “hallucinatory realism”, while Doris Lessing “an epicist of the female experience” subjected “a divided civilisation to scrutiny”.

The Nobel committee called her an "epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny."

The Swedish Academy her as an ”epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny.”

On winning the Nobel Prize, the Swedish Academy described Lessing as an "epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny".

But it was the Canopus in Argus sequence, identified by Lessing as her most important work, that the Nobel committee recognised when describing their author as "the epicist of the female experience".