Literature prize winner drops out of Nobel ceremony

Thursday, November 29, 2007

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Doris Lessing is unable to travel to Stockholm to receive her Nobel Prize in literature Dec. 10 due to back problems, the Nobel Foundation said Wednesday.

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