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Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931) is a
Nobel Prize
and
Pulitzer Prize
-winning American novelist, editor, and professor.
روائية امريكية ولدت عام 1931 وحازت على جائزة نوبل
Her novels are known for their
epic
themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters.
عرف ادبها بافكارها الملحمية والحوار الحية والتفاصيل الغنية
Among her best known novels are
The Bluest Eye
,
Song of Solomon
and
Beloved
. She also was commissioned to write the libretto for a new opera,
Margaret Garner
, first performed in 2005.
Early life and career
Toni Morrison was born in
Lorain, Ohio
to Ramah (née Willis) and George Wofford. She is the second of four children in a working-class family.
كانت الثانية في الترتيب من عائلة من الطبقة العاملة
As a child, Morrison read constantly; among her favorite authors were
Jane Austen
and
Leo Tolstoy
. Morrison's father told her numerous folktales of the black community (a method of storytelling that would later work its way into Morrison's writings).
In 1949 Morrison entered
Howard University
, where she received a B.A. in English in 1953. She earned a
Master of Arts
degree in English from
Cornell University
in 1955, for which she wrote a
thesis
on
suicide
in the works of
William Faulkner
and
Virginia Woolf
.
كانت رسالة الدكتوراه عن موضوع الانتحار في ادب وليم فولكنير وفرجينيا ولف
After graduation, Morrison became an English instructor at
Texas Southern University
in
Houston, Texas
(1955–57), then returned to Howard to teach English. She became a member of
Alpha Kappa Alpha
sorority.
In 1958 she married Harold Morrison, a Jamaican architect and fellow faculty member at
Howard University
. They had two children, Harold and Slade, and divorced in 1964.
تزوجت عام 1958 وانجبت طفلين ثم انفصلت عن زوجها عام 1964
After the divorce she moved to
Syracuse, New York
, where she worked as a textbook editor. A year and a half later, she went to work as an editor at the
New York City
headquarters of
Random House
. As an editor, Morrison played a vital role in bringing black literature into the mainstream, editing books by authors such as
Toni Cade Bambara
,
Angela Davis
, and
Gayl Jones
.
Writing career
Morrison began writing fiction as part of an informal group of poets and writers at Howard who met to discuss their work. She went to one meeting with a short story about a black girl who longed to have blue eyes. She later developed the story as her first novel,
The Bluest Eye
(1970).
كانت روايتها الاولى عن طفلة امريكية تتمنى لو كان لديها عيون زرقاء
She wrote it while raising two children and teaching at Howard. In 2000 it was chosen as a selection for
Oprah's Book Club
.
In 1975 her novel
Sula
(1973) was nominated for the
National Book Award
. Her third novel,
Song of Solomon
(1977), brought her national attention. The book was a main selection of the
Book-of-the-Month Club
, the first novel by a black writer to be so chosen since
Richard Wright
's
Native Son
in 1940. It won the
National Book Critics Circle Award
.
In 1987 Morrison's novel
Beloved
became a critical success. When the novel failed to win the
National Book Award
as well as the
National Book Critics Circle Award
, a number of writers protested over the omission. Shortly afterward, it won the
Pulitzer Prize for fiction
and the
American Book Award
. That same year, Morrison took a visiting professorship at
Bard College
.
Beloved
was adapted into the 1998
film of the same name
starring
Oprah Winfrey
and
Danny Glover
. Morrison later used
Margaret Garner
's life story again in the libretto for a new opera,
Margaret Garner
, with music by
Richard Danielpour
. In May 2006,
The New York Times Book Review
named
Beloved
the best
American
novel published in the previous twenty-five years.
In 1993 Morrison was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature
. Her citation reads: Toni Morrison, "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality." She is currently the last American to have been awarded the honor. Shortly afterward, a fire destroyed her Rockland County, New York home.
In 1996 the
National Endowment for the Humanities
selected Morrison for the
Jefferson Lecture
, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the
humanities
. Morrison's lecture, entitled "The Future of Time: Literature and Diminished Expectations," began with the aphorism, "Time, it seems, has no future." She cautioned against the misuse of history to diminish expectations of the future.
Morrison was honored with the 1996
National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
, which is awarded to a writer "who has enriched our literary heritage over a life of service, or a corpus of work."
[12]
Although her novels typically concentrate on black women, Morrison does not identify her works as
feminist
.
تركز في رواياتها على المرأة السوداء ( من اصل افريقي).
She has stated that she thinks "it's off-putting to some readers, who may feel that I'm involved in writing some kind of feminist tract. I don't subscribe to patriarchy, and I don't think it should be substituted with matriarchy. I think it's a question of equitable access, and opening doors to all sorts of things."
[
In addition to her novels, Morrison has also co-written books for children with her younger son, Slade Morrison, who worked as a painter and musician. Slade died on December 22, 2010, aged 45.
مات ابنها سليد عام 2010 عن عمر 45 سنه
In writing about the
impeachment in 1998
, Morrison wrote that, since
Whitewater
,
Bill Clinton
had been mistreated because of his "Blackness":
Years ago, in the middle of the Whitewater investigation, one heard the first murmurs: white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black President. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald’s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas.
كتبت في العام 1998 بان كلينتون كان رئيس اسود بل اكثر سودا من اي رئيس اسود يمكن ان ينتخب وذلك لانه مثل السود عاش من دون اب وولد فقيرا ومن طبقة عامله ، يعزف الساسكفون وكان يحب الاكل من مطعم مكدولنالد والطعام السريع من ولاية اركنساس
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