First African-American wins Nobel Prize for literature, Toni Morrison

Literary/ Cultural Context Note

Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.5: African American Writing and Culture of the United States.
Vol. editors: Philathia Bolton (University of Akron), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), A Yemisi Jimoh (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University)

Domains

Literature (all)
Prizes and prize winners

Dates

Date of occurrence 1993-12-07

Places

United States (Location)

Cultural Identities

African American

She is the first African American to do so.

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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "First African-American wins Nobel Prize for literature, Toni Morrison". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 March 2010 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=11103, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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