Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

About Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Purple Hibiscus, her first novel, was won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. Her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, was adapted into a film starring Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer whose works range from novels, short stories to non-fiction. She has been described in the Literature Magazine as "most important" in the critically acclaimed group of young English-speaking authors [who] succeed in attracting a unique generation. New imitation comes to African literature ", especially in its second home country, the United States. . Adichie, a feminist, has written novels Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, short story volume The Thing Around Your Neck, and long essay book We Should Be Feminist. Her most recent book, Dear Ijeawele, or the Bill of Rights of the Fifteen Suggestions, was published in March 2017. In 2008, she was awarded the MacArthur Genius Fellowship.

Nationality	Nigerian, American
Children	1
Notable works	Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), Americanah (2013), We Should All Be Feminists (2014)
Period	2003–present
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer, non-fiction writer
Alma mater	Eastern Connecticut State University (BA), Johns Hopkins University (MA), Yale University (MA)
Notable awards	MacArthur Fellowship (2008)
Born	September 15, 1977, Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria

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Trivia

She was listed on The New Yorker's "20 Under 40" issue featuring the best young authors in 2010.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie before fame

In 1997, she published Decisions, a compilation of her poems. She went on to win the BBC Short Piece Award and the O. Henry Prize for her narrative That Harmattan Morning for The American Embassy.

Achievement of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

She was named to The New Yorker's"20 Under 40" list of the best young novelists in 2010.

Salary 2020

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Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie family life

During her marriage to Ivara Esege, she split her time between the United States and Nigeria.

Associations of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

She gave a TED talk about feminism, and Beyonce Knowles copied a portion of it in her song"***Flawless".

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