WASHINGTON: Nobel Prize-winning US author Toni Morrison has died, American media reports said. She was 88.
Author of 11 novels, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, having published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970.
Her 1987 book Beloved told the story of a runaway female slave and was made into a film starring Oprah Winfrey in 1998.
Morrison once said: “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
The Morrison family statement said the “extremely devoted mother, grandmother, and aunt” had “passed away peacefully last night surrounded by family and friends”.
Morrison died at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York.
(Agencies)
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