Toni Morrison receives Bellow award for lifetime achievement

Toni Morrison receives Bellow award for lifetime achievement | iNFOnews.ca
FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013 file photo, author Toni Morrison signs copies of her latest book "Home," during Google's online program series, Authors At Google, in New York. Morrison has received a lifetime achievement award from the PEN American Center. Hundreds of people gathered Thursday night, Oct. 27, 2016, at the New School auditorium in Manhattan to recognize Morrison. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

NEW YORK – American author Toni Morrison has received a lifetime achievement award from the PEN American Center.

Hundreds of people gathered Thursday night at the New School auditorium in Manhattan to recognize Morrison. The Nobel laureate received a prize named for a previous Nobel winner, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award.

The 90-minute event featured music from mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran and her husband, composer-pianist Jason Moran, along with readings of Morrison’s work by actors Adepero Oduye and Delroy Lindo.

The 85-year-old Morrison spoke briefly at the end evening and read an excerpt from a planned book, one that she says she’s determined to finish.

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