Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Alternate names: Chimamanda Ngozi; Amanda N. Adichie; Chima Ngozi Adichie; Chimamand Ngozi Adichie; NGOZI ADICHIE  CHIMA; Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi; Chimamanda Ngozi Adi; Ngozi Adichie Chimamanda; Chimamanda Adichie; Chimamanda Ngozi Adidchie; CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE; Chimanda Ngozi Adiche; CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADI; Chimananda Ngozi Adichie
Born: 1977
Bio: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book, and a People and Black Issues Book Review Best Book of the Year; and the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Her latest novel Americanah, was published around the world in 2013, and has received numerous accolades, including winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction; and being named one of The New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year.

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