Awards

1. 1977 National Book Critics Circle Award for Song of Solomon
2. 1977 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award
3. 1987-88 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
4. 1988 Helmerich Award
5. 1988 American Book Award for Beloved
6. 1988 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Race Relations for Beloved
7. 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Beloved
8. 1988 Frederic G. Melcher Book Award for Beloved. A remark in her acceptance speech that “there is no suitable memorial or plaque or wreath or wall or park or skyscraper lobby” honoring the memory of the human beings forced into slavery and brought to the United States; “There’s no small bench by the road,” led the Toni Morrison Society to begin installing benches at significant sites in the history of slavery in America; the first “bench by the road” was dedicated July 26, 2008 on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, the point of entry for approximately 40 percent of the enslaved Africans brought to British North America.
9. 1989 MLA Commonwealth Award in Literature
10. 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature
11. 1993 Commander of the Arts and Letters, Paris
12. 1994 Condorcet Medal, Paris
13. 1994 Pearl Buck Award
14. 1994 Rhegium Julii Prize for Literature
15. 1996 Jefferson Lecture
16. 1996 National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
17. 2000 National Humanities Medal
18. 2002 100 Greatest African Americans, list by Molefi Kete Asante.
19. 2005 Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Oxford University.
20. 2009 Norman Mailer Prize, Lifetime Achievement
21. 2011 Honorary Doctor of Letters at Rutgers University Graduation Commencement.
22. 2011 Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Geneva.
23. 2012 Announced to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
24. 2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom
25. 2010 Officier de la Légion d'honneur.

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