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Doris Lessing holds up the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature medal after being presented it by the Ambassador of Sweden, Staffan Carlsson, during a ceremony at the Wallace Collection art gallery in London, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008. The 88-year-old writer suffers back problems and was not well enough to travel to Stockholm for the official Nobel prize-giving ceremony on Dec. 10. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)