![]() She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2021. She was the recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize in 2018. In 2008, she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. ![]() ![]() Her most recent books are Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017), Zikora (2020) and Notes on Grief (2021). She was described in The Times Literary Supplement as "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature", particularly in her second home, the United States.Īdichie has written the novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013), the short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), and the book-length essay We Should All Be Feminists (2014). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about The Thing Around Your Neck on Bookbits radioĬhimamanda Ngozi Adichie ( / ˌ tʃ ɪ m ɑː ˈ m ɑː n d ə ə ŋ ˈ ɡ oʊ z i ə ˈ d iː tʃ eɪ/ ( listen) CHIM-ah- MAHN-də əng- GOH-zee ə- DEE-chay born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer whose works include novels, short stories and nonfiction. ![]()
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