This Day In Black Excellence: Toni Morrison Won The Nobel Prize In Literature

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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated October 7, 2023

Thirty years ago, on October 7, 1993, Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Morrison was the first Black woman to receive a Nobel Prize in any category.

In the announcement, the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy said Morrison “gives life to an essential aspect of American reality” in her books, which are “characterized by visionary force and poetic

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