The Grass Is Singing, published in 1950, is the first novel by the British author Doris Lessing. It takes place in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in...
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Killing Heat (category Films set in the 1940s)
is a 1981 film based on Doris Lessing's 1950 novel The Grass Is Singing. It stars Karen Black and John Thaw and was filmed in Zambia and Sweden. The film...
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Doris Lessing (redirect from Walking in the Shade)
include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good...
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White Zimbabweans (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
interview show Meet the Writers on the station. Doris Lessing's Southern Rhodesia novel The Grass is Singing was adapted into a film by the white Zimbabwean...
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Karen Black (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
in the drama Killing Heat (1981), based on Doris Lessing's 1950 novel The Grass Is Singing, which focused on race relations in South Africa in the 1960s;...
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November 1935) is an English film and television actress. Amanda Walker trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She is notable for roles...
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The Grass Roots are an American rock band that charted frequently between 1965 and 1975. The band was originally the creation of Lou Adler and songwriting...
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Michael Raeburn (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
(1981)". 2 September 2013. "The Grass is Singing". "Film Review: Doris Lessing's the Grass is Singing (Michael Raeburn, 1981) - the Postcolonialist". "Jit"...
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Zimbabwe (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
Prize-winning author Doris Lessing's first novel The Grass Is Singing is set in Rhodesia, as are the first four volumes of her Children of Violence sequence...
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List of Karen Black performances (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
AllMovie. Archived from the original on August 23, 2019. Retrieved August 23, 2019. Lucas, Tim; Lucas, Donna. "Reviews: Every Minute Is Goodbye". Video Watchdog...
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Martha Quest (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
to encounter the real life she is so eager to experience and understand." Lessing's first novel The Grass Is Singing published in 1950, also takes place...
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List of Zambian films (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
This is a list of films produced in Zambia: Killing Heat (1981) Can you see us (2022) The grass is singing (1981) I Am Not a Witch (2017) Love Is Not Enough...
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Tracy-Ann Oberman (category Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
October that year. In 2011, Oberman appeared in Born To Shine singing folk music and playing the guitar. In 2012, Oberman was a judge, alongside Yiddish scholar...
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Singing the Legend (Korean: 불후의 명곡: 전설을 노래하다; RR: Bulhu-ui Myeong-gok: Jeonseoreul Noraehada), also known as Immortal Songs 2 (Korean: 불후의 명곡 2), is a...
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Grass by the Home (Russian: Трава у дома, romanized: Trava u doma) is a 1983 song by former Soviet and Russian music group Zemlyane. The lyrics were written...
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Lonely Drifter Karen (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
and Melià recorded the debut album, Grass is Singing, which was released by Crammed Discs in May 2008 in Europe, June 2008 in the United States and September...
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"Whispering Grass (Don't Tell the Trees)" is a popular song written by Fred Fisher and his daughter Doris Fisher. The notion of "whispering grass" which reveals...
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several genres including The Grass Is Singing (1950), The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974), and The Sweetest Dream (2001). Her writing is characterized by penetrating...
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Livingstone, Zambia (category 1897 establishments in the British Empire)
town in the 1981 movie The Grass Is Singing (based on the Doris Lessing novel of that name). . At the same time, a large infusion of cash from the British...
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English novel (category History of literature in the United Kingdom)
from Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), published her first novel The Grass is Singing in 1950, after immigrating to England. She initially wrote about...
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Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman. Though it was first published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life...
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Twentieth-century English literature (category History of literature in the United Kingdom)
prizes in Europe and the United States. Doris Lessing from Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, published her first novel The Grass is Singing in 1950, after immigrating...
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Doris Lessing author of various works including “The Grass is Singing,” is the most well known member of the Southern Rhodesian Communist Party. Southern...
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The Grass Is Blue is the thirty-seventh solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Dolly Parton. It was released on October 26, 1999, by Sugar Hill...
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Monster Chetwynd (category Alumni of the Royal College of Art)
her source materials (whether The Canterbury Tales, Doris Lessing’s novel The Grass is Singing or the character of the Cat Bus from Hayao Miyazaki’s cartoon...
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List of English novelists (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
(1931–2020), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Anthony Lejeune (1928–2018) Laurence Lerner (1925–2016) Doris Lessing (1919–2013), The Grass Is Singing Andrea...
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Postcolonial literature (section Evolution of the term)
from Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, published her first novel The Grass is Singing in 1950, after immigrating to England. She initially wrote about...
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"Green, Green Grass of Home", written by Claude "Curly" Putman Jr., and first recorded by singer Johnny Darrell in 1965, is a country song made popular...
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A singing game is an activity based on a particular verse or rhyme, usually associated with a set of actions and movements. As a collection, they have...
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British literature (redirect from Literature of the United Kingdom)
from Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) published her first novel The Grass Is Singing in 1950 after immigrating to England. She initially wrote about her...
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