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* Novelist

In May 2010, Morrison appeared at [[PEN World Voices]] for a conversation with [[Marlene van Niekerk]] and [[Kwame Anthony Appiah]] about [[South African literature]] and specifically van Niekerk's 2004 novel ''Agaat''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/4744/prmID/1984 |title=Toni Morrison and Marlene van Niekerk in Conversation with Anthony Appiah |work=PEN World Voices Festival |date=May 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005064305/http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/4744/prmID/1984 |archive-date=October 5, 2012 }}</ref>

 

 

In May 2011, Morrison received an Honorary [[Doctor of Letters]] degree from [[Rutgers University–New Brunswick]]. During the commencement ceremony,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.rutgers.edu/news-release/nobel-laureate-toni-morrison-speak-receive-honorary-degree-rutgers%E2%80%99-245th-commencement-may-15/20110208 |title=Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison to Speak, Receive Honorary Degree at Rutgers' 245th Commencement May 15 |work=Rutgers Today |date=February 8, 2011 }}</ref> she delivered a speech on the "pursuit of life, liberty, meaningfulness, integrity, and truth".

In 2016, Oberlin College received a grant to complete a documentary film begun in 2014, ''The Foreigner's Home'', about Morrison's intellectual and artistic vision,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://undertheduvetproductions.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/the-foreigners-home-a-feature-length-documentary-film-on-nobel-laureate-toni-morrison-2017-by-photojournalist-lisa-pacino/|title=The Foreigner's Home, a Feature-Length Documentary Film on Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison 2017 by Photojournalist Lisa Pacino|date=January 25, 2017|website=Under The Duvet Productions|access-date=April 29, 2017}}</ref> explored in the context of the 2006 exhibition she guest-curated at the Louvre.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theforeignershome.com/|title=Toni Morrison at the Louvre|website=The Foreigner's Home|access-date=February 12, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://canjournal.org/2019/11/toni-morrison-documentary-questions-what-it-means-to-be-a-foreigner/|title=Toni Torrison documentary questions what it means to be a foreigner|first=Brittany M. |last=Hudak|website=CAN Journal|publisher=Collective Arts Network|location=Cleveland|date=November 2019|access-date=February 12, 2021}}</ref> The film's executive producer was [[Jonathan Demme]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://videolibrarian.com/reviews/the-foreigners-home-toni-morrison-at-the-louvre/|title=The Foreigner's Home: Toni Morrison at the Louvre|website=Video Librarian|first=K. |last=Fennessy|date=December 19, 2018}}</ref> It was directed by Oberlin College Cinema Studies faculty Geoff Pingree and Rian Brown,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rianbrown.com/the-foreigners-home/|title=The Foreigner's Home|website=Rian Brown|access-date=April 29, 2017}}</ref> and incorporates footage shot by Morrison's first-born son Harold Ford Morrison, who also consulted on the film.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.oberlin.edu/articles/cinema-studies-faculty-make-documentary-toni-morrison/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421204301/http://news.oberlin.edu/articles/cinema-studies-faculty-make-documentary-toni-morrison/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 21, 2016|title=Cinema Studies Faculty Make Documentary on Toni Morrison|date=April 21, 2016|work=News Center|access-date=April 29, 2017 | df=mdy-all }}</ref>

 

 

== Awards ==

* 1977: [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] for ''[[Song of Solomon (novel)|Song of Solomon]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards|title=National Book Critics Circle: awards|website=www.bookcritics.org|access-date=April 2, 2019|archive-date=August 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801043800/http://bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

* 1977: [[American Academy of Arts and Letters|American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters]] Award<ref>{{Cite book|last=Goulimari|first=Pelagia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aiupAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA26|title=Toni Morrison|date=2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1136698682|page=26|author-link=Pelagia Goulimari}}</ref>

* ''What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction'', edited by Carolyn C. Denard (2008), {{ISBN|978-1604730173}}

* Editor (2009), ''[[Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word]]'', {{ISBN|978-0061878817}}

* ''Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Harvard Divinity School's 95th Ingersoll Lecture: With Essays on Morrison's Moral and Religious Vision''. Edited by [[David Carrasco]], [[Stephanie Paulsell]], and Mara Willard. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press (2019)

 

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