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Toni Morrison: US Nobel Prize-Winning Author Dies at Age 88

By
M Ashraf Siddiqui
06/08/2019
in

06 Aug. 2018, BBC

The Morrison family confirmed "with profound sadness" that Morrison had died "following a short illness".

The author of 11 novels, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, having published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970.

Her 1987 book Beloved told the story of a runaway female slave and was made into a film starring Oprah Winfrey in 1998.

Morrison once said: "We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."

The Morrison family statement said the "extremely devoted mother, grandmother, and aunt" had "passed away peacefully last night [5 August] surrounded by family and friends".

"The consummate writer who treasured the written word, whether her own, her students or others, she read voraciously and was most at home when writing," it continued. "Although her passing represents a tremendous loss, we are grateful she had a long, well lived life."

According to the AFP news agency, Morrison died at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York.

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