{"id":24936,"date":"2019-08-07T05:38:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T05:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng.danfetv.com\/?p=24936"},"modified":"2019-08-07T05:38:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T05:38:28","slug":"nobel-laureate-toni-morrison-dead-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.danfetv.com\/?p=24936","title":{"rendered":"Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dead at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature has died following a short illness.\u00a0Toni Morrison was 88.\u00a0She was an American novelist of many renowned works including &#8220;Beloved,&#8221; &#8220;Song of Solomon,&#8221; and &#8220;The Bluest Eye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for &#8220;Beloved&#8221; in 1988. The novel was later adapted into a film of the same name, starring U.S. talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey, as well as Danny Glover and Thandie Newton.<\/p>\n<p>She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, and the committee said that in novels &#8220;characterized by visionary force and poetic import,&#8221; Morrison &#8220;gives life to an essential aspect of American reality. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eng.danfetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Nobel-laureate-Toni-Morrison-dead-at-88.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-24937\" src=\"http:\/\/eng.danfetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Nobel-laureate-Toni-Morrison-dead-at-88-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eng.danfetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Nobel-laureate-Toni-Morrison-dead-at-88-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eng.danfetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Nobel-laureate-Toni-Morrison-dead-at-88-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/eng.danfetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Nobel-laureate-Toni-Morrison-dead-at-88-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/eng.danfetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Nobel-laureate-Toni-Morrison-dead-at-88.jpg 650w, https:\/\/eng.danfetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Nobel-laureate-Toni-Morrison-dead-at-88-562x420.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/a><em><span style=\"background-color: #ff0000;\">Writer Toni Morrison received the Nobel Prize in literature from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, right, in the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden on Dec. 10, 1993. 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