Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Author of Americanah
About the Author
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria on September 15, 1977. She studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half before moving to the United States, where she studied communication at Drexel University for two years. She received a bachelor's degree in show more communication and political science at Eastern Connecticut State University in 2001, a master's degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, and a master's degree in African Studies from Yale University in 2008. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, was published in 2003 and received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in 2005. Her other books include The Thing around Your Neck, Americanah, and We Should All Be Feminist. Half of a Yellow Sun won the Orange Prize in 2007. She was awarded the 2018 PEN Pinter Prize, for her body of work that shows 'outstanding literary merit'. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Private Experience 9 copies
Above All Else, Do Not Lie 6 copies
The Headstrong Historian 4 copies
Of This Our Country: Essays from some of Nigeria’s greatest writers, including Ayobami Adebayo, Inua Ellams,… (2021) 3 copies
Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah, Purple Hibiscus: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Three-Book Collection (2014) 3 copies
Olikoye 3 copies
Quella cosa intorno al collo 2 copies
なにかが首のまわりに (河出文庫 ア 10-1) 2 copies
Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds 2 copies
Ofodile 2 copies
Birdsong 2 copies
The Grief of Strangers 2 copies
Real Food 2 copies
Checking Out 2 copies
The Jumping Monkey Hill 2 copies
Miracle 1 copy
Keder Üzerine 1 copy
KAHA PATA IRA PALUWAK 1 copy
Poetizando Singular - eBook 1 copy
Ghosts 1 copy
The best short stories 1 copy
My Mother, the Crazy African 1 copy
How Did You Feel About It? 1 copy
The Time Story 1 copy
Janelle Asked to the Bedroom 1 copy
Kvelningsfornemmelser 1 copy
Associated Works
This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers (2006) — Contributor — 342 copies
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Contributor — 88 copies
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Contributor — 75 copies
Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2009) — Contributor — 73 copies
Courage Is Contagious and Other Reasons to Be Grateful for Michelle Obama (2017) — Contributor — 38 copies
The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing (2011) — Contributor — 33 copies
Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian Writers on the Home, Identity, and Culture They Know (2021) — Contributor — 12 copies
Discovering Home: A Selection of Writings from the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing (2003) — Contributor — 7 copies
群像 2010年 08月号 [雑誌] — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
- Other names
- Adichie, Amanda N. (early pen name)
Adichie, Amanda Ngozi (early pen name)
Grace-James, Nwa (pen name) - Birthdate
- 1977-09-15
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Nigeria
- Country (for map)
- Nigeria
- Birthplace
- Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria
- Places of residence
- Nsukka, Nigeria
USA - Education
- University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
Eastern Connecticut State University (BA | Communication and Political Science)
Johns Hopkins University (Mx ∙ Creative writing)
Yale University (MA ∙ African history)
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - Occupations
- writer
- Organizations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Honorary member, 2017)
- Awards and honors
- MacArthur Fellowship (2008)
PEN Pinter prize (2018)
Hodder Fellow - Agent
- The Wylie Agency
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September 2023: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Monthly Author Reads (October 2023)
Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in World Reading Circle (January 2014)
GROUP READ: Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (August 2012)
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- Works
- 69
- Also by
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- Popularity
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