LITERATURE CKRDIGEST ( TAGS :WOMEN EMPOWERMENT, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION,AMERICAN LITERATURE,NOBEL PRIZE WINNER ...07/08/2019)
THE WOMAN WHO PRAYED FOR BLUE EYES
US author Toni Morrison(NOBEL PRIZE WINNER ) has died at the age of 88.(LITERATURE DIGEST CKR O7O82019)
Morrison attended Howard University in Washington DC from 1949-1953. Americans at a bookshop near her old university reflect on what she meant to them.
Morrison once said: "We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
Her narratives and mesmerising prose have made an indelible mark on our culture. Her novels command and demand our attention.
"They are canonical works, and more importantly, they are books that remain beloved by readers."
Her fiction
The Bluest Eye, 1970
Sula, 1973
Song of Solomon, 1977
Tar Baby, 1981
Beloved, 1987
Jazz, 1992
Paradise, 1997
Love, 2003
A Mercy, 2008
Home, 2012
God Help the Child, 2015
When she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy described her as an author "who in novels characterised by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"
(INPUTS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES )
In 1996 she was honoured with the National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters,
In 2012, President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Morrison was also the first female African-American editor at Random House, where she had the role from 1967 to 1983.
She championed writers of colour and published the likes of Gayl Jones, Henry Dumas, Muhammad Ali and Angela Davis, among others.
Morrison also taught at Princeton University.
THE WOMAN WHO PRAYED FOR BLUE EYES
US author Toni Morrison(NOBEL PRIZE WINNER ) has died at the age of 88.(LITERATURE DIGEST CKR O7O82019)
Morrison attended Howard University in Washington DC from 1949-1953. Americans at a bookshop near her old university reflect on what she meant to them.
Morrison once said: "We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
Her narratives and mesmerising prose have made an indelible mark on our culture. Her novels command and demand our attention.
"They are canonical works, and more importantly, they are books that remain beloved by readers."
The Bluest Eye, 1970
Sula, 1973
Song of Solomon, 1977
Tar Baby, 1981
Beloved, 1987
Jazz, 1992
Paradise, 1997
Love, 2003
A Mercy, 2008
Home, 2012
God Help the Child, 2015
When she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy described her as an author "who in novels characterised by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"
(INPUTS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES )
In 1996 she was honoured with the National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters,
In 2012, President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Morrison was also the first female African-American editor at Random House, where she had the role from 1967 to 1983.
She championed writers of colour and published the likes of Gayl Jones, Henry Dumas, Muhammad Ali and Angela Davis, among others.
Morrison also taught at Princeton University.
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