She Won the Most Coveted Prize in Literature–and Couldn’t Care Less

Doris Lessing, author of The Golden Notebook, became the oldest person honored with a Nobel Prize for Literature today. You’d think she’d be thrilled. . . . But as is obvious in the video where reporters inform her that she has won, we can see that she doesn’t seem to really give a poop. In fact, as she pushed her way past reporters to get into her London home she told them, “Oh Christ, I couldn’t care less.” She said that “they can’t give the Nobel to someone who’s dead, so I think they were probably thinking they’d probably better give it to me now before I’ve popped off.” Lessing turns 88 next week.