Awards & Winners

Toni Morrison

Date of Birth 18-February-1931
Place of Birth Lorain
(Lorain County, Ohio, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Chloe Anthony Wofford, Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Profession Writer, Novelist, Professor, Editor, Poet
Toni Morrison is an American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon and Beloved. She also was commissioned to write the libretto for a new opera, Margaret Garner, first performed in 2005. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for Beloved and the Nobel Prize in 1993. On 29 May 2012, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Awards by Toni Morrison

Check all the awards nominated and won by Toni Morrison.

2010


Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Children's Peeny Butter Fudge

2008


2005


Coretta Scott King Award for Authors
Honored for : Remember: The Journey to School Integration
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction
Honored for : Love

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors Remember: The Journey to School Integration
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction Love

2004


NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction
Honored for : Love

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction Love
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Children's Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper?

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Paradise

1994


Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Neustadt International Prize for Literature

1993


Nobel Prize in Literature
(who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality)

1988


Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Honored for : Beloved
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Honored for : Beloved
American Book Awards
Honored for : Beloved
Helmerich Award

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Beloved

1987


Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction Beloved

1977


National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
Honored for : Song of Solomon
Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
Honored for : Song of Solomon

1975


Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction Sula