Nobel prize-winning author placed ‘in highest rank of American literature by £25000 accolade previously awarded to Don DeLillo,Cormac McCarthy and Philip RothAmerican 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, or over a sustained career,places him or her in the highest rank of American literature”, is worth $25000 (£18000).
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Source: theguardian.com