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Nobel laureate Toni Morrison passes away

Nobel Prize-winning US author Toni Morrison (88) has passed away in New York, United States on 5th August 2019. She is the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature for her novels depicting the struggles of black Americans living in a white society ridden with racial discrimination. She won the 1988 Pulitzer ..

Topics: African-American people • American writers • Beloved • Black people • Oprah Winfrey • The Oprah Winfrey Show • Toni Morrison • Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am • Women and death • Writers

Tayari Jones wins 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction

American author Tayari Jones has won the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel “An American Marriage”. The book portraits a young African American’s wrongful conviction and how it affects his marriage. It is a story of love, loss and loyalty, the resilience of the human spirit painted on a big political canvas – ..

Topics: African-American literature • American writers • An American Marriage • Psychological resilience • Tayari Jones

Raghu Karnad wins 2019 Windham Campbell Prize

Delhi-based Journalist and author, Raghu Karnad has won the 2019 Windham-Campbell Prize under non-fiction category for his debut book ‘The Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War’ in London. Hence, Karnad has become the 2nd Indian to receive the prestigious prize, since Jerry Pinto won it for his novel ‘Em And The ..

Topics: American writers • Donald Windham • Em and the Big Hoom • Guggenheim Fellows • Jerry Pinto • Karnad • Raghu Karnad • Sandy Campbell • Windham • Writers • Yale University Library

Russell Baker, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author passes away

Russell Baker (93), the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author , has passed away in Virginia, United States on January 21, 2019. He was the genial, but sharp-witted writer for his humorous columns in The New York Times and a moving autobiography of his impoverished Baltimore childhood and later hosted television’s ‘Masterpiece Theatre’. He won Pulitzers in ..

Topics: American writers • Autobiographies • Genres • Growing Up • Humorist • Russell Baker

Ntozake Shange, noted African-American Playwright, poet and author, passes away

Ntozake Shange (70), the noted African-American Playwright, poet and author, has passed away in Maryland, United States on October 27, 2018. Her most acclaimed theatre piece is the 1975 Tony Award-nominated play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf”, which describe the racism, sexism, violence and rape experienced by seven black ..

Topics: African-American literature • American writers • Betsey • Betsey Brown • For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf • Guggenheim Fellows • Liliane • Lost in language & sound • Nappy edges • Ntozake Shange • Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo