TONI MORRISON

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined. ― Toni Morrison

As part of their mission to champion women writers on a global stage, we’re launching a special collaboration with the Women’s Prize Trust: five T-shirts emblazoned with the names of celebrated female authors who have changed the world: Maya Angelou, Nora Ephron, Daphne du Maurier, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf. 

Toni Morrison was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, editor and professor. She was the only African American writer, and one of the few women, to have received the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in 2012 Barack Obama awarded her Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour. The announcement of her 1993 Nobel cited her as a writer “who, in novels characterised by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality”. 

Her work is widely loved – she is the most-chosen author by guests of the Women’s Prize podcast – and she paved the way for countless writers who might otherwise have felt there was no place for people like them in the pantheon of literature.

£5 from every purchase of this T-shirt is donated to the Women’s Prize Trust, helping them to empower women to raise their voice and own their story.