Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

writer

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  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s work has been translated into over thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker and Granta. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus; Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; and the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Her 2009 TED Talk is called The Danger of A Single Story, and her 2012 talk We Should All Be Feminists was published as a book in 2014. Her most recent book, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, was published in March 2017. A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Adichie divides her time between the United States and Nigeria. You can follow her love affair with Nigerian fashion on Instagram.