美国黑人女作家托尼·莫里森获得了1993年10月颁布的诺贝尔文学奖。她是自1901年设立诺贝尔文学奖以来获此奖的第一位美国黑人,也是迄今获此殊荣的第八位女作家。作为一名美国黑人妇女,莫里森用她充满感情和饱蘸血泪的笔,以一个女人的眼光来描写美国黑人,尤其是黑人妇女的辛酸经历。用她自已的话说,就是要打破“文学界的沉默”,即“在黑人姑娘和黑人妇女问题 American black woman writer Tony Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 1993. She is the first African-American to win the prize since the Nobel Prize for Literature was founded in 1901 and the eighth woman to date for this award. As an Afro-American woman, Morrison used her pen full of emotion and tears to describe the bitter experience of black Americans, especially black women, from a woman’s perspective. In her own words, it is to break the “silence of the literary world”, that is, "the issue of black girls and black women