CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Born :September 15 1977 (37) Nationality :Nigerian Movies : Half of a Yellow Sun Awards : Baileys Women Prize for Fiction, MacArthur.

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CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Born :September (37) Nationality :Nigerian Movies : Half of a Yellow Sun Awards : Baileys Women Prize for Fiction, MacArthur Worship, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, PEN Open Book Award

FACTS ABOUT CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE She holds a masters degree in African studies from Yale. Her second novel was called Half of a Yellow Sun. The literary talents she admires the most are Iris Murdoch and Jamaica Kincaid She was 24 when she wrote Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda means “My God Will Not Fail Me”

Chimamanda Adichie is a Nigerian novelist, nonfiction writer and short story writer, born on September 15 th 1977.She was born in the city of Enugu and grew up as the fifth child out of six children in an Igbo family. She studied medicine and pharmacy in The University of Nigeria for a year and a half. Then when she was 19 she went America to study communications and political science in Drexel University. In 2003 she earned a masters degree in Creative Writing at Johns Hopkins University. In 2008 she got a master of arts degree in African studies at Yale University. Early Life

A famous Chimamanda quote