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Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is the author of several novels, including The Bluest Eye, Beloved (made into a major film), and Love. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize. She is the Robert F. Goheen Professor at Princeton University. Read full bio
16 de set. de 1987 · (Book 223 from 1001 books) - Beloved, Toni Morrison Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War (1861–65), it is inspired by the story of an African-American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state.
1 de jun. de 1970 · 256,587 ratings17,641 reviews. The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and ...
Toni Morrison foi uma escritora norte-americana e a primeira mulher negra vencedora do prêmio Nobel de Literatura, em 1993. Mas os méritos da prolífica autora americana não se traduzem apenas em suas inúmeras premiações e condecorações: a exclusividade e ineditismo de algumas delas, no entanto, indicam vitórias que ultrapassam os limites da literatura.
Toni Morrison (b. Chloe Ardelia Wofford on February 18, 1931) is the Nobel Prize winning author of 10 novels, and has also penned 7 non-fiction works, 2 plays, and 3 childrens books. Her work is known for epic themes and often focuses on black women; her novel Beloved received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.One ofThe Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free.
30 de nov. de 2023 · The Nobel Prize for Literature is not given for one specific book — unlike the Pulitzer Prize — but rather an author’s contribution to the industry and community. At the time of her Nobel Prize there were only six Toni Morrison books in order: The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, and Jazz.
