The very first time I heard Doris Lessing's name was in 2007, the same year she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

“Master and Margarita” is one of three novels that had a profound influence on me as a teenager... with “Great Expectation” and “George Orwell's Essays”. Beforehand, I had read about Bulgakov's bold mail to Stalin in thirties, and surprisingly, the very proper return telephone call and the vital help of Stalin (1).