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Lessing

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Noun

1. gotthold ephraim lessing, lessing

German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (1729-1781)

2. doris lessing, doris may lessing, lessing

English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919)

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noun
1. 
Doris (May). 1919–2013, English novelist and short-story writer, brought up in Rhodesia: her novels include the five-novel sequence Children of Violence (1952–69), The Golden Notebook (1962), a series of science-fiction works (1979–83), The Good Terrorist (1985), and The Sweetest Dream (2001). Nobel prize for literature 2007
2. 
Gotthold Ephraim (ˈɡɔthɔlt ˈeːfrɑɪm). 1729–81, German dramatist and critic. His plays include Miss Sara Sampson (1755), the first German domestic tragedy, and Nathan der Weise (1779). He is noted for his criticism of French classical dramatists, and for his treatise on aesthetics Laokoon (1766)

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1. 
Doris (May)1919- ; Brit. writer
2. 
ˈGotthold Ephraim (ˈgɔtˌhɔltˈ eɪfʀɑˌɪm) ; g^ōtˈh^ōltˌ āˈfräimˌ) 1729-81; Ger. dramatist & critic

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German playwright and critic. A leader of the Enlightenment, he wrote the plays Minna von Barnhelm (1767) and Nathan the Wise (1779).
British writer known for her five-volume series Children of Violence (1952-1969) and for The Golden Notebook (1962). In 2007 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

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