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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer of novels, short stories, and nonfiction. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. She was described in the Times Literary Supplement as "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".

Adichie published a collection of poems in 1997 (Decisions) and a play (For Love of Biafra) in 1998. She was shortlisted in 2002 for the Caine Prize for her short story "You in America", and her story "That Harmattan Morning" was selected as a joint winner of the 2002 BBC World Service Short Story Awards. In 2003, she won the O. Henry Award for "The American Embassy", and the David T. Wong International Short Story Prize 2002/2003 (PEN Center Award). Her stories were also published in Zoetrope: All-Story, and Topic Magazine.

Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), received wide critical acclaim; it was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction (2004) and was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (2005).

Her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), named after the flag of the shortlived nation of Biafra, is set before and during the Nigerian Civil War. It received the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Half of a Yellow Sun has been adapted into a film of the same title directed by Biyi Bandele, starring BAFTA award-winner and Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor and BAFTA winner Thandie Newton, and was released in 2014.

Adichie's third book, The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), is a collection of 12 stories that explore the relationships between men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States.

In 2010 she was listed among the authors of The New Yorker′s "20 Under 40" Fiction Issue. Adichie's story "Ceiling", was included in the 2011 edition of The Best American Short Stories.

Her third novel, Americanah (2013), an exploration of a young Nigerian encountering race in America, was selected by The New York Times as one of "The 10 Best Books of 2013".

In April 2014, she was named as one of 39 writers aged under 40 in the Hay Festival and Rainbow Book Club project Africa39, celebrating Port Harcourt UNESCO World Book Capital 2014.

In 2015, she was co-curator of the PEN World Voices Festival.

In a 2014 interview, Adichie said on feminism and writing, "I think of myself as a storyteller, but I would not mind at all if someone were to think of me as a feminist writer... I'm very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that world view must somehow be part of my work."

In March 2017, Americanah was picked as the winner for the "One Book, One New York" program, part of a community reading initiative encouraging all city residents to read the same book.

In April 2017, it was announced that Adichie had been elected into the 237th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the highest honours for intellectuals in the United States, as one of 228 new members to be inducted on 7 October 2017.

Her most recent book was published in March 2017 titled Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie

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Throwback photo with her brother

chimamanda (my God can never fail)

I don't know why I love that name

She's an amazing writer! Happy birthday ma. Wishing you long life and prosperity.

nice mama

The pride of Africa.



She is writing history already.

Happy birthday to a great writer.

pride of Africa, shine on!

V

Beautiful.

oh

Congratulations beautiful woman

HBD Ma'.

Achile1515:
Hbd lesbo Amanda.

Does being a feminist make her a lesbo?. BTW, she's married na.

Never has any lady divided opinion so viciously in the literary world.

Her representation of feminism negates everything African and our founding beliefs.

I celebrate her achievements and global appeal (just as I celebrate every ambitious woman out there ), but please do not join the Caucasians in shredding the culture that made you.

#the storm is brewing
#POTUS vs Pyongyang

A Queen

cool

Hbd lesbo Amanda.

Sometimes I just have a hard on for no reason

The obvious lack of equity in the land, which is attributed to BIAFRA, has pushed the Easterners youths to dig deeper in their research on the war"

Title: UNFOLD
Medium: oil on mixed media
Size: 18 by 22
Year:2017
Halaancestoral

#toparts #arts #paintings

Oysdam:
A Queen

A Slay Queen you mean?

beauty with brains

hbd to her

Happy birthday!!

SHE IS A GOOD NOVELIST


HBD CHIMA

Beauty and brains

See her and Nnamdi Kanu as children

Cool

My daughter will be like you one day

She's our hero; not that BASTARD called Nnamdi Kanu. I think, we should all be feminist.

Wow, those her old pics, I think that should be jaja her brother that she talked about in purple hibiscus

No difference at all

..happy birthday to her .

hbd my lady.