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46. Carnegie Hall Performer |
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| complete name: |
Toni Morrison |
| nobel prize: |
literature |
| award year: |
1993 |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/1 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 was awarded to Toni Morrison "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| birth name: |
Chloe Ardelia Wofford |
| given name: |
Toni |
| family name: |
Morrison |
| occupation: |
writer |
| occupation: |
poet |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| occupation: |
children's writer |
| occupation: |
novelist |
| occupation: |
librettist |
| field of work: |
poetry |
| work location: |
Princeton University, 1 Nassau Hall, Princeton, NJ, 08544-0070, United States of America |
| notable work: |
Beloved |
| notable work: |
The Bluest Eye |
| notable work: |
A Mercy |
| notable work: |
Jazz |
| notable work: |
Song of Solomon |
| notable work: |
Sula |
| notable work: |
Love |
| notable work: |
Home |
| notable work: |
Paradise |
| notable work: |
Tar Baby |
| notable work: |
God Help the Child |
| description: |
Toni Morrison is an American novelist, editor, and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), Song of Solomon (1977), and Beloved (1987). Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988 for Beloved. Beloved was adapted into a film of the same name (starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover) in 1998. Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. In 1996, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected her for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. She was also honored with the 1996 National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Morrison was commissioned to write the libretto for a new opera, Margaret Garner, first performed in 2005. On May 29, 2012, Morrison received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1993/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1931 |
| usual name: |
Toni Morrison |
