Named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2015, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has received global recognition for her work, which has been translated into over thirty languages. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Her second, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), won the Orange Prize. Her 2013 novel Americanah, won the US National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of the New York Times Top Ten Best Books of the year.
Ms. Adichie grew up on the campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She studied medicine for a year at Nsukka, then left for the US to continue her education, graduating summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University with a degree in Communication and Political Science.
Ms. Adichie earned a master’s degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University, and a master’s degree in African history from Yale University. She was a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University (2005-2006) and a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow (2011-2012). In 2008, Ms. Adichie was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
