Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author portrait
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

About the Author
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief, and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book written as Nwa Grace-James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
Dream Count
Mama's Sleeping Scarf
We Should All Be Feminists: A Guided Journal
Notes on Grief
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
The Arrangements
The Shivering
Imitation
We Should All Be Feminists
Americanah
The Thing Around Your Neck
Half of a Yellow Sun

Books

Dream Count
Mama's Sleeping Scarf
We Should All Be Feminists: A Guided Journal
Notes on Grief
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
The Arrangements
The Shivering
Imitation
We Should All Be Feminists
Americanah
The Thing Around Your Neck
Half of a Yellow Sun

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