![]() ![]() Published in 2006, Half of a Yellow Sun set during the Nigerian Biafra war won the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus, is about emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom and earned the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She earned a Master's in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University and Master of Arts in African Studies from Yale University.Īdichie's current catalog includes three novels, a collection of short stories, a collection of poems, and publications in numerous journals. ![]() At Eastern, she studied communication and political science, graduating summa cum laude in 2001. She studied communications on scholarship at Drexel University for two years, then transferred to Eastern Connecticut State University. ![]() In 2008, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant." She currently splits her time between Nigeria and the United States.īorn and raised in Nigeria, Adichie studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half before leaving for the United States at the age of 19. Her novels, short stories, and plays have all received both public and critical acclaim. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a writer and storyteller, best known for her themes of politics, culture, race, and gender. ![]()
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