Toni Morrison was widely seen one of the leading lights of US literature and a champion for minorities.
In choosing Morrison, the Swedish Nobel Academy singled out the way she"delves into the language itself, a language she wants to liberate from the fetters of race".
Love, from 2003, was an intricate family story about the many facets of love. A Mercy, from 2008, dealt with slavery in 17th Century America, while Home, published in 2012, documented a traumatised Korean War veteran who faced racism after returning home. She later revealed she found the attempts of comfort from friends left her numb."What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't,""Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say that to me. There's no language for it. Sorry doesn't do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something."
In 2015, Morrison brought out her last novel God Help the Child, which told the story of a beautiful young woman who is tormented by the emotional abuse her mother subjected her to as a child because she had dark skin.
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