Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The winner of the Orange Broadband Prize For Fiction in 2007, with Half of A Yellow Sun...

Half of A Yellow Sun is set against a backdrop of the Biafran war of the 1960s, and tells the story of people caught up in the unfolding political turmoil in west Africa, whose loyalties are acutely tested when troops advance on the dusty university town they inhabit. The novel examines ethnic allegiances, moral responsibility, class and race.

US-based Chimamanda is the daughter of a former deputy vice-chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The family once lived in the house where one of Nigerian best-known writers, Chinua Achebe, also once lived. She studied medicine in Nsukka before heading for the United States at 19 to study communication and political science at Connecticut State University. Chimamanda now divides her time between Nigeria and the United States. She was a Hodder fellow at Princeton University during the 2005-2006 academic year, and is now pursuing graduate work in the African Studies program at Yale University.

Purple Hibiscus was also awarded the Best First Book at the Commonwealth Writers' Awards in March, 2005, and it was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.

Half of a Yellow Sun won the 2007 Orange Prize.

Chimamanda's latest book is The Thing Around Your Neck.

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Name: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Date of birth: 1977

Place of birth: Abba, Nigeria

Current Home: Nigeria/Connecticut

Education: Nsukka University, Nigeria, Johns Hopkins University

Awards: Orange Prize winner, 2007 - Commonwealth Writers Award.

Similar Authors: Achmat Dangor, Lewis Desoto, Andrea Levy, Pettina Gappah

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The Thing Around Your Neck

The Thing Around Your Neck

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From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. In...
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The Thing Around Your Neck

The Thing Around Your Neck

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Published: 01/10/2009
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Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Published: 15/01/2007
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In 1960s Nigeria, a country blighted by civil war, three lives intersect. Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university... Read more

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Purple Hibiscus

Purple Hibiscus

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Format: Paperback 336 pages
Published: 07/02/2005
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The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili,s world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious... Read more

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