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Toni Morrison wins PEN/Saul Bellow award for contribution to American fiction

Written By Unknown on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 | 1:19 PM

Nobel prize-winning author placed ‘in highest rank of American literature’ by £25,000 accolade previously awarded to Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy and Philip Roth

American icon Toni Morrison has been awarded the 2016 PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction.

The award, which is presented to living American authors whose “scale of achievement in fiction, over a sustained career, places him or her in the highest rank of American literature”, is worth $25,000 (£18,000).

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