Toni Morrison obituary

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Nobel prizewinner and author whose stories have a strong historical and cultural base and a style, structure and tone that is specifically African American

Toni Morrison, who has died aged 88, was the only African American writer and one of the few women to have received the Nobel prize for literature. The announcement of her 1993 award cited her as a writer “who, in novels characterised by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality”.

 

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