Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah, Half of a Yellow Sun, The Thing Around Your Neck, The African Trilogy)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria, where she attended medical school for two years at the University of Nigeria before coming to the United States. A 2003 O. Henry Prize winner, Adichie was shortlisted for the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing. Her work has been selected by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and the BBC Short Story Awards, and has appeared in various literary publications, including Zoetrope and the Iowa Review. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and longlisted for the Booker. She now divides her time between the U.S. and Nigeria. (added from Random House)… (more)

Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Called “the 21st-century daughter of that other great Igbo novelist, Chinua Achebe" (The Washington Post Book World), Nigerian-born writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie exposes the deep scars of colonialism on the African landscape. Her debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which followed a 15-year-old girl growing up in sheltered privilege in a country ravaged by political strife, received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. Her second novel Half of a Yellow Sun received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Orange Prize. The book takes its title from the emblem for Biafra, the breakaway Nigerian state whose name became a byword for war by starvation. She is also the author of the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Spanning three continents, Americanah is a sweeping novel of love, race, and expectation in a globalized society. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

Location: Street: Free Library of Philadelphia Additional: 1901 Vine Street City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19103-5207 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Called “the 21st-century daughter of that other great Igbo novelist, Chinua Achebe" (The Washington Post Book World), Nigerian-born writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie exposes the deep scars of colonialism on the African landscape. Her debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which followed a 15-year-old girl growing up in sheltered privilege in a country ravaged by political strife, received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. Her second novel Half of a Yellow Sun received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Orange Prize. The book takes its title from the emblem for Biafra, the breakaway Nigerian state whose name became a byword for war by starvation. She is also the author of the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Spanning three continents, Americanah is a sweeping novel of love, race, and expectation in a globalized society.

Cost: FREE
No tickets required. For Info: 215-567-4341. (MDGentleReader)… (more)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author of two novels and a story collection. She has been awarded MacArthur Fellowship, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Orange Broadband Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Set during the Biafran struggle for independence, Half of a Yellow Sun tells a story at once harrowing and tender, panoramic and personal. Chinua Achebe writes, “We do not usually associate wisdom with beginners, but here is a new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers. Adichie knows what is at stake, and what to do about it. She is fearless.” Adichie divides her time between the United States and her native Nigeria. Her next novel, Americanah, will be published in May 2013.

talk on Half of a Yellow Sun: Monday, April 1
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie visit: Wednesday, April 3

Program Room of the Ernest F. Hollings Special Collection Library. (Enter through the Thomas Cooper Library.) (MDGentleReader)… (more)

MacArthur Foundation Fellowship recipient and award-winning Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie will join us for a powerful talk and conversation. In all her work Adichie, who was named by The New Yorker as one of the 20 most important fiction writers under 40 years old, speaks to the cross-generational significance of storytelling and its enduring impact on the cultural history of our lives. Her newest novel, Americanah, will be published by Knopf in May 2013. Free. (SqueakyChu)… (more)