Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian author and public speaker. She has won numerous accolades for her novels and short stories, including literature prizes, doctorate honours from Universities and fashion awards. Purple Hibiscus has garnered multiple awards. In 2006 the second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, was nominated for a National Book Award.
Adichie's early career awards includes the BBC Short Story Competition in 2002 for her short story, "That Harmattan Morning" and the O. Henry Prize in 2003 for "The American Embassy". Purple Hibiscus won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in 2004 under the Best Debut Fiction category and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2005 for the African Best First Book. Half of a Yellow Sun won in 2007: the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award under the fiction category, a joint winner with Martha Collins for Blue Front PEN 'Beyond Margins' Award, joint winner with Ernest Hardy for Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. It also won the David T. Wong International Short Story Prize and the 2002/2003 Pen Center Award. Adichie won the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in 2008. Her third novel, Americanah won the 2009 International Nonino Prize, and in 2013 fiction category won: Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award.
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