Dhaka, Aug. 7 -- Toni Morrison, a novelist, short-story writer and also the award-winning author of 11 novels whose writing expressed the life of African American women, died August 5, 2019, at the age of 88 in New York due to complications from pneumonia. She was the first African American to win the Nobel Prize in the field of Literature in 1993. After five years of winning the Nobel Prize, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her world-famous book 'Beloved' which was inspired by a true story of an African American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 and also notorious or celebrated for killing her daughter rather than allowing the child to be returned to slavery.

Besides in 2000, Morrison received the N...