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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is in fine literary company indeed and faces competition from inaugural winner Helen Dunmore who won the 1996 prize with her novel,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], A Spell of Winter; in addition to the following illustrious authors; Linda Grant, When I lived in Modern Times,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Andrea Levy, Small Island; Ann Michaels, Fugitive Pieces; Zadie Smith, On Beauty.
The author studied medicine and pharmacology in Nigeria, but left the country for the United States at the age of nineteen. She studied humanities at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won the Orange Prize in 2007 with her second novel, Half of A Yellow Sun, set in the Biafran war. The epic novel sold 650 000 copies in Britain alone and is now a set literature text in Ireland.
The £30 000, 00 worth Orange Broadbent Prize for Fiction is a UK based annual award that honours the best fiction of the year written by a woman in the English language. It celebrates its fifteenth anniversary on June 7 this year. It was co-founded by Kate Mosse in 1995. The first prize was given the following year.
Best of Orange Best 2010
A short list was compiled by a panel of six teenagers who were selected from entries sent to Spinebreakers, the online community for book loving teenagers. They read the fourteen previous winning titles and came up with a shortlist of six from which one winner, the ‘Best of the Orange Best 2010,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],’ will be selected.
The Orange Prize Youth Panel shortlist was announced on 29 April. The winner will be announced on June 7, two days ahead of the award ceremony for Orange Prize 2010.
In 2003 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie completed a Master’s degree in creative writing at John Hopkins University in Baltimore and also holds a Master of Arts in African Studies from Yale. She is currently a recipient of a MacArthur scholarship. She currently lives in the United States.
Purpel Hibiscus is not short of awards, however. It won the 2005 Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book. It was published in 2003. Her third book is a collection of twelve stories, The Thing Around Your Neck, which was published to great critical acclaim in 2009.
The Best of Orange Best prize winner will be chosen from the fourteen previous award winners
The Best of Orange 10th Anniversary prize went to Andrea Levy’s Small Island in 2005, which won the prize in 2004. Ironically, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 's debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, lost out to Small Island when it reached the shortlist in 2004.
Read on
Black Pioneers of Literature
Review of The Thing Around Your Neck
Review of Four Letter Word by Knelman and Porter
About Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie