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Toni Morrison, American novelist and editor, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019).

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Toni Morrison

American novelist and editor (1931–2019)

Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national…
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Nobel Prize in Literature

Prize established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning for Literature, is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most…
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February 18

Day of the year

February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 316 days remain until the end of the year.
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