Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Adichie, Fairfax, 2013
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15 September 1977 Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria |
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| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, nonfiction writer | ||
| Nationality | Nigerian | ||
| Ethnicity | Igbo | ||
| Period | 2003 — present | ||
| Notable works |
Purple Hibiscus Half of a Yellow Sun Americanah |
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| Notable awards | MacArthur Fellowship (2008) | ||
| Spouse | Ivara Esege | ||
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (
i/ˌtʃɪmɑːˈmɑːndə əŋˈɡoʊzi ʌˈdiːtʃeɪ/; born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian novelist, nonfiction writer and short story writer. A MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, James Copnall wrote in the Times Literary Supplement that she was "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors [that] is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature".
Adichie, who was born in the city of Enugu, grew up the fifth of six children in an Igbo family in the university town of Nsukka. Nsukka is in Enugu State, southeast Nigeria, where the University of Nigeria is situated. While she was growing up, her father, James Nwoye Adichie, was a professor of statistics at the university, and her mother, Grace Ifeoma, was the university's first female registrar. Her family's ancestral village is in Abba in Anambra State.
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