About Chimamanda Adichie

About Chimamanda

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.

A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

• Purple Hibiscus (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2003).
• Half of a Yellow Sun (London: Fourth Estate, 2006).
• Americanah (London: Fourth Estate, 2013). 
• For Love of Biafra (Ibadan: Spectrum Books, 1998).
• Decisions (London: Minerva Press, 1997).
• 'Sheer Beauty', Prime People, date unknown.
• We dream', Poetry Magazine 3.9, September 1998.
• 'Visiting Nigeria', Poetry Magazine 6.6, June 2001.The Thing around Your Neck (London: Fourth Estate, 2009). 
• We Should All Be Feminists (London: Fourth Estate, 2014). Originally published in e-book format (New York: Vintage Short, 2014).