Three Black writers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature; do you know them?

[Troy]

Only three Black writers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Do you know them? (off the top of your head--without looking it up).

[Guest michael evans]

wole soyinka, nurrudin farrah & toni morrison

[Troy]

Two out of three is not bad :-)

 

[CDBurns]

I would have said James Baldwin, August Wilson and Toni Morrison, but I haven't looked it up and I don't know if I'm right on Toni, lol. Time to hit the google!

[Troy]

OK let me know where you find the answer.

[Guest Clarence Reynolds]

Derek Walcott, Toni Morrison, and Wole Soyinka... And two (Morrison and Walcott) have appeared and been honored at the National Black Writers Conference at Medgar Evers College.

Clarence

[Troy]

Correct!

Derek Walcott, Toni Morrison, and Wole Soyinka of St. Lucia, America, and Nigeria respectively were the only Black people to win a Nobel Prize for Literature. 

I attended the conferences Clarence mentioned in which Morrison and Walcott were honored.