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PostPosted: 08/06/19 8:50 am    ::: Toni Morrison - February 18, 1931-August 5, 2019 Reply Reply with quote


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NEW YORK (AP/GRAY) — Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison has died.

Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88.

She was the first black woman to receive the Nobel literature prize, awarded in 1993. The Swedish academy hailed her use of language and her "visionary force."

Her novel "Beloved," in which a mother, Margaret, makes a tragic choice to murder her baby to save the girl from slavery, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988.


https://www.kolotv.com/content/news/Nobel-laureate-Toni-Morrison-has-died-a-friend-confirms-523002541.html

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PostPosted: 08/06/19 1:36 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote
Selected list of awards/honors/accolades for Toni Morrison:

    1977: National Book Critics Circle Award for Song of Solomon
    1977: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award
    1987–88: Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
    1988: American Book Award for "Beloved"
    1988: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Beloved
    1989: Honorary Doctor of Letters at Harvard University
    1993: Nobel Prize for Literature
    1996: National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
    2000: National Humanities Medal
    2005: Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Oxford University
    2009: Norman Mailer Prize, Lifetime Achievement
    2011: Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction
    2011: Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Geneva
    2012: Presidential Medal of Freedom
    2014 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award given by the National Book Critics Circle
    2016 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
    2016 The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry (The Norton Lectures), Harvard University
    2018 The Thomas Jefferson Medal, awarded by The American Philosophical Society


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PostPosted: 08/07/19 7:42 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 08/07/19 8:02 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote
In the words of a Youtube comment on this video:

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Charlie is such a buffoon. She handles his mediocrity so artfully.


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PostPosted: 08/26/19 1:49 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote
Beloved was a great read..... the movie not so great Sad

PEACE & LOVE GO MYSTICS!!!!!



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