"I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer who has been called "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed
young anglophone authors [that] is succeeding in attracting a new generation of
readers to African literature". In her writings, Adichie tries to
fight the image of Africans as
portrayed by Western media throughout her book. As shown in her writing voice
and style, Adichie is a staunch feminist
and uses her work as a way to work through the misogyny and condescension she has faced as an African woman in the
global literary community.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is also the writer of Purple Hibiscus which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, shortlisted for the Orange Fiction Prize (2004). In addition, her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book, and a People and Black Issues Book Review Best Book of the Year.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is also the writer of Purple Hibiscus which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, shortlisted for the Orange Fiction Prize (2004). In addition, her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book, and a People and Black Issues Book Review Best Book of the Year.
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Born on: September 15, 1977
Born in: Egunu, Nigeria
Notable Works: Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah
Education: University of Nigeria, Drexel University, Eastern Connecticut State University, John Hopkins University
Awards and Selected Nominations
Born in: Egunu, Nigeria
Notable Works: Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah
Education: University of Nigeria, Drexel University, Eastern Connecticut State University, John Hopkins University
Awards and Selected Nominations
- 2002: Shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing, for "You in America"
- 2002: Runner-up in the Commonwealth Short Story Competition, for "The Tree in Grandma's Garden"
- 2002: BBC Short Story Competition joint winner, for "That Harmattan Morning"
- 2003: O. Henry Prize for "The American Embassy"
- 2002/2003: David T. Wong International Short Story Prize (PEN Center Award), for "Half of a Yellow Sun"
- 2004: Hurston-Wright Legacy Award (Best Debut Fiction Category), for Purple Hibiscus
- 2004: Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, for Purple Hibiscus
- 2004: Longlisted for the Booker Prize, for Purple Hibiscus
- 2005: Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book (Africa), for Purple Hibiscus
- 2005: Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book (overall), for Purple Hibiscus
- 2007: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (Fiction category), for 'Half of a Yellow Sun' (joint winner)
- 2007: PEN Beyond Margins Award, for Half of a Yellow Sun (joint winner)
- 2007: Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction for Half of a Yellow Sun
- 2008: Future Award, Nigeria (Young Person of the Year category)
- 2008: MacArthur Foundation genius grant (along with 24 other winners)
- 2009: International Nonino Prize
- 2009: Longlisted for Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, for The Thing Around Your Neck
- 2009: Shortlisted for John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, for The Thing Around Your Neck
- 2010: Shortlisted for Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best Book (Africa), for The Thing Around Your Neck
- 2013: Named one of Foreign Policy's (FP) "Top Global Thinkers of 2013"
- 2014: Shortlisted for National Book Critics Circle Award, for Americanah
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