Owing to the unique perspective and neoteric writing techniques, Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1983 and becomes the first Afro-American woman writer to win this honor in literary history.

• 尽管如此，沃克以她独特的视角与写作技巧，荣获一九八三年美国普利策文学奖, 因而成为获此殊荣的第一位黑人女作家。