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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie biography

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian author known for her novels, short stories, and essays. She studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria before moving to the United States, where she earned a degree in communication and political science from Eastern Connecticut State University. She later completed a master’s degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University and a master’s degree in African studies at Yale University.

Adichie’s debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, was published in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction and was adapted into a feature film released in 2013. In 2013, she published Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and was named one of The New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2013.

Her short story collection, The Thing Around Your Neck, was published in 2009. Adichie has also written essays, including the widely circulated We Should All Be Feminists (2014), based on her TEDx talk, and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017).

Adichie has received several honours, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008. In 2018, she was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize. Her works have been translated into more than thirty languages.

In 2020, Adichie published Notes on Grief, an essay reflecting on personal loss.