Mario Vargas Llosa wins 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature. Who else won in the past decade?

7. 2007: Doris Lessing

The 2007 Nobel committee described British writer Doris Lessing as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny." Born to British parents in what is now Iran, the feminist and former communist is perhaps noted best for her breakthrough novel, “The Golden Notebook.”

Ms. Lessing never finished high school.

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