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Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison dies

Written by on 06/08/2019

The Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88.

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Her publisher said she died on Monday night at Montefiore Medical Centre in New York.

Morrison was the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature – which she was awarded in 1993.

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