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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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Published Purple Hibiscus in 2003BaltimoreSun: Genius In Our Midst
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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
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Both grandfathers died in Nigerian civil warBaltimoreSun: Genius In Our Midst
