The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 Toni Morrison.

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 Toni Morrison

► Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford;(February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon and Beloved. She also was commissioned to write the libretto for a new opera, Margaret Garner, first performed in She won the Nobel Prize in 1993 and in 1987 the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved. In April 2012 it was announced she would be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. epicThe Bluest EyeSulaSong of SolomonBelovedMargaret GarnerNobel PrizePulitzer PrizePresidential Medal of FreedomepicThe Bluest EyeSulaSong of SolomonBelovedMargaret GarnerNobel PrizePulitzer PrizePresidential Medal of Freedom

► Writing career ► Toni Morrison at the Miami Book Fair International of 1986 Miami Book Fair InternationalMiami Book Fair International Morrison began writing fiction as part of an informal group of poets and writers at Howard who met to discuss their work. She went to one meeting with a short story about a black girl who longed to have blue eyes. She later developed the story as her first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970). She wrote it while raising two children and teaching at Howard. In 2000 it was chosen as a selection for Oprah's Book Club.[6] Morrison began writing fiction as part of an informal group of poets and writers at Howard who met to discuss their work. She went to one meeting with a short story about a black girl who longed to have blue eyes. She later developed the story as her first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970). She wrote it while raising two children and teaching at Howard. In 2000 it was chosen as a selection for Oprah's Book Club.[6]The Bluest EyeOprah's Book Club[6]The Bluest EyeOprah's Book Club[6] ► In 1975 her novel Sula (1973) was nominated for the National Book Award. Her third novel, Song of Solomon (1977), brought her national attention. The book was a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the first novel by a black writer to be so chosen since Richard Wright's Native Son in It won the National Book Critics Circle Award. SulaNational Book AwardSong of SolomonBook-of-the-Month ClubRichard WrightNative SonNational Book Critics Circle AwardSulaNational Book AwardSong of SolomonBook-of-the-Month ClubRichard WrightNative SonNational Book Critics Circle Award ► In 1987 Morrison's novel Beloved became a critical success. When the novel failed to win the National Book Award as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award, a number of writers protested over the omission. Shortly afterward, it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the American Book Award. That same year, Morrison took a visiting professorship at Bard College. BelovedNational Book AwardNational Book Critics Circle AwardPulitzer Prize for fictionAmerican Book Award Bard CollegeBelovedNational Book AwardNational Book Critics Circle AwardPulitzer Prize for fictionAmerican Book Award Bard College

► Writing career ► Beloved was adapted into the 1998 film of the same name starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. Morrison later used Margaret Garner's life story again in the libretto for a new opera, Margaret Garner, with music by Richard Danielpour. In May 2006, The New York Times Book Review named Beloved the best American novel published in the previous twenty-five years. film of the same name Oprah WinfreyDanny GloverMargaret GarnerMargaret GarnerRichard DanielpourThe New York Times Book ReviewAmericanfilm of the same name Oprah WinfreyDanny GloverMargaret GarnerMargaret GarnerRichard DanielpourThe New York Times Book ReviewAmerican ► Toni Morrison, on jacket of her Pulitzer Prize winning novel Beloved. ► In 1993 Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her citation reads: Toni Morrison, "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality." She is currently the last American to have been awarded the honor. Shortly afterward, a fire destroyed her Rockland County, New York home. Nobel Prize in LiteratureNobel Prize in Literature ► In 1996 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Morrison for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. Morrison's lecture, entitled "The Future of Time: Literature and Diminished Expectations," began with the aphorism, "Time, it seems, has no future." She cautioned against the misuse of history to diminish expectations of the future. National Endowment for the HumanitiesJefferson LecturehumanitiesNational Endowment for the HumanitiesJefferson Lecturehumanities ► Morrison was honored with the 1996 National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, which is awarded to a writer "who has enriched our literary heritage over a life of service, or a corpus of work.” National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American LettersNational Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

Writing career ► Although her novels typically concentrate on black women, Morrison does not identify her works as feminist. She has stated that she thinks "it's off-putting to some readers, who may feel that I'm involved in writing some kind of feminist tract. I don't subscribe to patriarchy, and I don't think it should be substituted with matriarchy. I think it's a question of equitable access, and opening doors to all sorts of things." feminist

Novels ► The Bluest Eye (1970) The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye ► Sula (1974) Sula ► Song of Solomon (1977) Song of Solomon Song of Solomon ► Tar Baby (1981) Tar Baby Tar Baby ► Beloved (1987) Beloved ► Jazz (1992) Jazz ► Paradise (1997) Paradise ► Love (2003) Love ► A Mercy (2008) A Mercy A Mercy ► Home (2012)

Awards ► 1977 National Book Critics Circle Award for Song of Solomon National Book Critics Circle AwardNational Book Critics Circle Award ► 1988 Helmerich Award Helmerich AwardHelmerich Award ► 1988 American Book Award for Beloved American Book AwardAmerican Book Award ► 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Beloved Pulitzer Prize for FictionBelovedPulitzer Prize for FictionBeloved ► 1988 Frederic G. Melcher Book Award for Beloved. A remark in her acceptance speech that “there is no suitable memorial or plaque or wreath or wall or park or skyscraper lobby” honoring the memory of the human beings forced into slavery and brought to the United States. “There’s no small bench by the road,” led the Toni Morrison Society to begin installing benches at significant sites in the history of slavery in America; the first “bench by the road” was dedicated July 26, 2008 on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, the point of entry for approximately 40 percent of the enslaved Africans brought to British North America. Frederic G. Melcher Book AwardA remark“bench by the road”Sullivan's Island, South CarolinaBritish North AmericaFrederic G. Melcher Book AwardA remark“bench by the road”Sullivan's Island, South CarolinaBritish North America ► 1989 MLA Commonwealth Award in Literature MLA ► 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature Nobel Prize for LiteratureNobel Prize for Literature ► 1993 Commander of the Arts and Letters, Paris Commander of the Arts and Letters, ParisCommander of the Arts and Letters, Paris ► 1994 Condorcet Medal, Paris ► 1994 Pearl Buck Award Pearl Buck AwardPearl Buck Award ► 1994 Rhegium Julii Prize for Literature ► 1996 National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American LettersNational Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters ► Greatest African Americans, list by Molefi Kete Asante. 100 Greatest African AmericansMolefi Kete Asante100 Greatest African AmericansMolefi Kete Asante ► 2005 Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Oxford University. Oxford UniversityOxford University ► 2009 Norman Mailer Prize, Lifetime Achievement Norman Mailer PrizeNorman Mailer Prize ► 2011 Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Geneva. University of GenevaUniversity of Geneva ► 2012 Announced to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom Presidential Medal of FreedomPresidential Medal of Freedom

► Tony Morrison’s books

Goals my aim is to inform the students about the first negro woman who won Nobel Prize. my aim is to inform the students about the first negro woman who won Nobel Prize.