Nobel-winning author Toni Morrison dies

By Bill Trott
Updated August 7 2019 - 7:28am, first published 7:25am
Toni Morrison, the first black woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died aged 88.
Toni Morrison, the first black woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died aged 88.

US author Toni Morrison, whose 1987 novel Beloved about a runaway slave won a Pulitzer Prize and contributed to a body of work that made her the first black woman to be presented the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died at the age of 88.

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