Café What? screens Morrison’s film
RETHABILE MOHONO
MASERU – The late Toni Morrison’s film Pieces I Am screens at Café What? tonight.
The screening is scheduled for 7pm.
In the film, scriptwriter Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics and colleagues on an exploration of race, history, America and the human condition.
Morrison was American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor.
Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970.
Her second the critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987).
She gained worldwide recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
The acclaimed writer 11 novels lost her life pneumonia on August 5, 2019.