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Article: Nobel Prize in literature a 'knockout' for Morrison, 1st black award recipient. (Toni Morrison)
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- October 25, 1993
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"Winning as an American is very special-but winning as a Black American is a knockout," said novelist-essayist Toni Morrison when she recently became the first Black writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature.
Morrison, 62, whose works include The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved, will receive the $825,000 prize during ceremonies on Dec. 10. She was cited by the Swedish Academy for writing prose "with the luster of poetry."
Her lyrical accounts of the Black experience make her a "literary artist of the first rank" whose work is "unusually finely wrought and cohesive, yet at the same time rich in variation," the academy stated.
At her ...