What is Lessing's opinion of the government?
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Wired members of the literary world knew about Doris Lessing’s Nobel Prize before she did, and her first response was an almost studied lack of interest to the financial award or the prestige it might bring. “Oh Christ…I couldn’t care less,” she is reported to have said when she came in from grocery shopping to find a phalanx of reporters at her doorstep. But even before Lessing showed off her indifference, the press seemed eager to paint her as a departure from her immediate predecessors. According to the New York Times, “Although Ms. Lessing is passionate aboutsocial and political issues, she is unlikely to be as controversial as the previous two winners, Orhan Pamuk of Turkey or Harold Pinter of Britain, whose views and comments on political situations led commentators to suspect that the Swedish Academy was choosing its winners in part for nonliterary reasons.” In the past few years, these “nonliterary reasons”have been specifically linked to authors and or political figures (in the Peace Category) who have questioned the United States’ involvement in Iraq