Award-winning author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has been selected as a fellow for the 2011- 2012 session at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, US. The author of ‘Purple Hibiscus’ and ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ is among the 51 people selected from 800 applications received by the Institute where individuals pursue advanced work across a wide range of academic disciplines, professions, and creative arts.

“The 51 men and women were chosen from 800 applicants based on prior accomplishments and the project they seek to undertake during their fellowship, as well as the potential of their projects to have long-term impact,” noted a release from the Institute. Adichie will join other eminent pacesetters from the sciences, humanities, social sciences, arts, and professions to spend a year at the Institute. Karla Strobel, communications officer of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study said the author of ‘The Thing around Your Neck’, a collection of short stories, will be working on her next novel during the programme.

Winner of the Orange Broad band Prize for Fiction in 2007 and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2008, Adichie was recently included in the New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 Fiction Issue.

She has been organising a creative writing workshop in Nigeria since 2006 and follows in the footsteps of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists, Geraldine Brooks and Junot Díaz, past fellows of the Radcliffe Institute programme now in its 11th year.

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she is worth all the attention and award. Her works are epitome of postcolonial works which bring forth both the good and bad seed of the Nigerian society; richly endowed with the nigerian culture and herritage and have a slant of afrocentricism just like the Achebeans' works.

Na books i go chop. . .make she drop d other one jare!