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- First came to U.S. in 1997BaltimoreSun: Genius In Our Midst
- Currently lives in MarylandUSAToday: MacArthur Foundation Awards 2008 'Genius Grants'
- Published Purple Hibiscus in 2003BaltimoreSun: Genius In Our Midst
- Chosen for "exploring the circumstances that lead to ethnic conflict in richly imagined novels and stories inspired by events in her native Nigeria"Macfound.org: Meet the 2008 Fellows
- Both grandfathers died in Nigerian civil warBaltimoreSun: Genius In Our Midst
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Member Note
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a novelist from Nigeria and one of 25 individuals chosen to receive a $500,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation in 2008. Her 2006 novel Half of a Yellow Sun is a love story between a professor and his mistress during the Nigerian civil war.BaltimoreSun: Genius In Our Midst Adichie plans to use the grant as income for the next few years so she can dedicate her time to writing another novel.BaltimoreSun: Genius In Our Midst
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Ngozi Adichie on Amazon
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Purple Hibiscus: A Novel - $14.95
Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, whil...Amazon
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Half of a Yellow Sun - $14.95
With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent ...Amazon
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The Thing Around Your Neck - $24.95
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as “one of the best novels to come out of Afric...Amazon
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Half of a Yellow Sun - $14.95
With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent ...Amazon
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One World: A global anthology of short stories - $16.95
This book is made up of twenty-three stories, each from a different author from across the globe. All belong to one world, united in their diversity and ethnicity. And together the...Amazon
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