Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a highly acclaimed Nigerian novelist, renowned for her captivating contemporary, feminism, literary fiction, and nonfiction novels. Some of her most popular works include "Purple Hibiscus," "Americannah," and "We Should All Be Feminists." Adichie's extraordinary talent has earned her numerous prestigious accolades, including the esteemed MacArthur Genius Grant. She is widely regarded as one of the most prominent and celebrated Anglophone authors, having successfully attracted a wider audience to African literature.
Born on September 15, 1977, in Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria, Adichie hails from a family of six children and is the fifth child of James Nwoye Adichie and Grace Ifoema. Her father was a statistics professor at the Nigeria University. Adichie's ancestral village is located in the Anambra State. During her youth, she pursued studies in pharmacy and medicine at the Nigeria University for a short period, during which she served as editor for The Compass, the university's magazine run by medical students.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has been featured in various publications, such as The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. She has written several critically acclaimed novels, including "Purple Hibiscus," which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; "Half of a Yellow Sun," which received the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book; and "Americanah," which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. Additionally, she has authored the story collection "The Thing Around Your Neck."
Adichie has gained international recognition for her thought-provoking speeches, including her 2009 TED Talk, "The Danger of A Single Story," which has become one of the most-viewed TED Talks of all time. Her 2012 talk, "We Should All Be Feminists," sparked a global conversation about feminism and 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 splits her time between the United States and Nigeria.