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[00:00.10]BBC News with Jerry Smit.
[00:03.65]The Nobel prize-winning author Doris Lessing has died at the age of 94. She grew up in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe before moving to London.
[00:12.05]Lessing wrote more than 50 books tackling issues as diverse as gender, race and communism.
[00:17.63]In 2007,she became the oldest author to win the Nobel Prize.
[00:22.18]The Swedish Academy described her as an author who has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny with skepticism, fire and visionary power.
[00:30.88]Despite her success, Doris Lessing never forgot the experiences of her early years.
[00:36.27]“If you had a kind of bleakness in your childhood which I had, you never lose it.
[00:43.40]It doesn't matter if you were given 15,000 prizes and the congratulations of I don't know who gotten itself what make any difference.”
[00:52.31]Large and destructive tornadoes have hit the American states of Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky.
[00:59.22]Tornado sirens send residents rushing for cover as the fast moving storms cross the Midwestern region.
[01:05.32]At least one person is reported to have been killed.
[01:08.11]Susan Kiamfour is in Washington.