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What specific book did Toni Morrison win the Nobel Prize for in 1993?

Let it be known I'm not referring to her winning the Pulitzer Prize, I know she won that for her novel Beloved.

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  • 9 years ago
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    The Nobel Prize is generally not given for a specific book, but for the author's body of work. This short list contains the few instances where the Prize was awarded for a specific book:

    "Awarded for a particular literary work

    While the Nobel Prize in Literature is for a writer's life work, there are nine Literature Laureates for whom the Swedish Academy singled out a specific work for particular recognition."

    http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/...

  • 9 years ago

    google it?

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