Wong International Short Story Prize 2002/2003 (PEN Center Award). In 2002, she was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story “You in America”, and her story “That Harmattan Morning” was selected as a joint winner of the 2002 BBC World Service Short Story Awards.

She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2021.

She was the recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize in 2018. In 2008, she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. Her most recent books are Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017), Zikora (2020) and Notes on Grief (2021). She was described in The Times Literary Supplement as 'the most prominent' of a 'procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature', particularly in her second home, the United States.Īdichie has written the novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013), the short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), and the book-length essay We Should All Be Feminists (2014). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about The Thing Around Your Neck on Bookbits radioĬhimamanda Ngozi Adichie ( / ˌ tʃ ɪ m ɑː ˈ m ɑː n d ə ə ŋ ˈ ɡ oʊ z i ə ˈ d iː tʃ eɪ/ ( listen) CHIM-ah- MAHN-də əng- GOH-zee ə- DEE-chay born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer whose works include novels, short stories and nonfiction.

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