Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing has said that the 11 September attacks were not as significant as the terror campaign waged by the IRA.
Lessing won the Nobel Prize, worth £763,000, honouring her 57-year career.
She was recognised for her "fire and visionary power", and is due to collect her award at a ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December.
The writer, whose novels include The Golden Notebook and Memoirs of a Survivor, also branded US President George W Bush "a world calamity".
"Everyone is tired of this man. Either he is stupid or he is very clever, although you have to remember he is a member of a social class which has profited from wars." The writer also said that she "always hated Tony Blair from the beginning".
Lessing won the Nobel Prize, worth £763,000, honouring her 57-year career.
She was recognised for her "fire and visionary power", and is due to collect her award at a ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December.
The writer, whose novels include The Golden Notebook and Memoirs of a Survivor, also branded US President George W Bush "a world calamity".
"Everyone is tired of this man. Either he is stupid or he is very clever, although you have to remember he is a member of a social class which has profited from wars." The writer also said that she "always hated Tony Blair from the beginning".
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