DL/A-Z//FAH - [Correspondence with Peter Fahrni of El-e-phant Books]
Reference code
DL/A-Z//FAH
Level of description
File
Title
[Correspondence with Peter Fahrni of El-e-phant Books]
Date/s
1992-1993
Quantity & Format
4 Letters (typescript)
1 Notes (MS)
1 Notes (MS)
Creator
Fahrni, PeterCreator
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013
Scope and content
5 items, some highlighted. Fahrni of El-e-phant Books asks Lessing (item 001) for a list of 10-20 books that Lessing considers to be the most outstanding from 1960 to the "present" (1992). Includes a handwritten draft by Lessing of this list (item 002).
DL/A-Z//FAH/003 [from Doris Lessing to Peter Fahrni of El-e-phant Books, 06/11/1992]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Lessing's list of outstanding fiction, which she writes was an "almost impossible job". Includes Kurt Vonngut, Kazuo Ishiguro, Brian Aldiss, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, William Golding and Muriel Spark, among others.
DL/A-Z//FAH/004 [from Doris Lessing to Peter Fahrni, 21/04/1993]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that she would like to change one of her selections, from Nuruddin Farah's Sweet and Sour Milk to Tarjei Veasaas' The Ice Palace.
DL/A-Z//FAH/003 [from Doris Lessing to Peter Fahrni of El-e-phant Books, 06/11/1992]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Lessing's list of outstanding fiction, which she writes was an "almost impossible job". Includes Kurt Vonngut, Kazuo Ishiguro, Brian Aldiss, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, William Golding and Muriel Spark, among others.
DL/A-Z//FAH/004 [from Doris Lessing to Peter Fahrni, 21/04/1993]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that she would like to change one of her selections, from Nuruddin Farah's Sweet and Sour Milk to Tarjei Veasaas' The Ice Palace.
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit