About Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is one of the greatest voices in world literature. Her work has been translated into 55 languages. In 2013, she received the Heartland Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for “Americanah”. Her novel “Purple Hibiscus” was longlisted for the Booker Prize and “Half of a Yellow Sun” won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction. With her TED talk “We should all be feminists”, the Nigerian author firmly anchored feminism in pop culture. Her most recent works include “Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions” (2017) and “Notes on Grief” (2021). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was honored in 2018 with the PEN Pinter Prize and in 2019 with the Everett M. Rogers Award. She was presented with the Kassel citizens’ award “Das Glas der Vernunft” in 2019. In 2020, she received the International Hermann Hesse Prize for “Purple Hibiscus”. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977 and now divides her time between Lagos and the USA.
