Toni Morrison was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 as well as given the President Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2012. Photo: AFP
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in Beloved, Song Of Solomon and other works transformed American letters by dramatising the pursuit of freedom within the boundaries of race, has died at age 88.
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced that Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. Morrison’s family issued a statement through Knopf saying she died after a brief illness.
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