Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria. A graduate of Eastern Connecticut State University, Johns Hopkins University and Yale University in the United States, Adichie is an award-winning writer whose work has been translated into thirty languages. Her novels include Purple Hibiscus, which won the 2004 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the 2005 Commonwealth Writers' Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction; and Americanah, which was among The New York Times ten best books of 2013. Adichie was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 2008.