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Gordimer, Walcott, and Morrison each offered his or her own words of homage before reading selections from their own work...
Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer, Derek Walcott, and Toni Morrison joined hundreds of audience members last night at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum for an evening of readings in celebration of the 70th birthday of fellow Nobel prize-winner Wole Soyinka, who became the first African to receive the prize...
Gordimer, Walcott and Morrison, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, 1992, and 1993 respectively, all spoke of the profound influence that Soyinka has had on their own work as well as English literature more broadly...
Rothenberg Professor of English Homi K. Bhaba introduced Morrison, speaking of what he refers to as her “spirit of rememory...
...whom the most extravagant promises of this land have become a reality are, I think, required to seek appropriate expressions of their gratitude," he says, with characteristic understatement. This book, like the life of quiet, diligent service it recounts, is an inspiring expression of that gratitude. --By Donald Morrison...