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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author of Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book and Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Broadband prize for fiction. She has also published numerous short stories, essays and poems. She divides her time between Nigeria and the US, where she is pursuing graduate work in the African Studies program at Yale University

September 2023

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    The books of my life
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘García Márquez taught me the exquisite power of stories’

    The Nigerian writer on Enid Blyton’s mysteries, the power of Chinua Achebe and the pleasure of reading magazines

December 2018

  • Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie poses during a photo session on January 24, 2018 in Paris. / AFP PHOTO / STEPHANE DE SAKUTINSTEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/Getty Images

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Ama Ata Aidoo – books podcast

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shares why she admires the ‘old-fashioned social realism’ of the Ghanaian writer’s No Sweetness Here, then reads the story, as part of our seasonal series of short stories selected by leading novelists

July 2018

  • beach

    Best summer books 2018, as picked by writers – part one

    Surrealist artists, dogged detectives, modern lovers and spies behaving badly ... leading authors pick their best books to enjoy these holidays

July 2017

  • Owen Gatley cover final

    Best holiday reads 2017, picked by writers – part one

    A plagiarist in a kitchen and a horse walking into a bar; Dublin crimes and Washington misdemeanours; relationships, revolutions and relaxations ... leading writers reveal their summer recommendations

October 2014

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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'I decided to call myself a Happy Feminist'

    In her hit TED talk, award-winning novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie set out her dreams for a fairer world

August 2014

  • holsPenelopeLively

    Writers' holiday photos: postcards from my past

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Howard Jacobson, Penelope Lively, William Boyd, Will Self and others share the photographs that capture their favourite summer memories

December 2013

  • plane interior with chairs

    A baby is born on a plane from Lagos – why would a woman take such a risk?

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The airline staff are baffled, but the Nigerian passengers are not. For us, lack of choice and dependence on chance is the norm

November 2013

  • Illustration by Rachel Gannon

    Writers and critics on the best books of 2013

    Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Malcolm Gladwell, Eleanor Catton and many more recommend the books that impressed them this year

April 2013

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    Point of view
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Facts are stranger than fiction

    The parts of my work people tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on real events, says Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

March 2011

  • Poverty matters blog
    A Nigerian revolution

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The political awakening of my country's young people could transform Nigeria's rotten democracy

July 2010

  • Harper Lee Smokes

    Rereading
    Rereading: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie celebrates the enduring achievement of Harper Lee's classic novel, which was published 50 years ago

June 2010

  • Teeh Nigeria World Cup squad

    World Cup 2010: Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Cameroon and South Africa - my boys

    When the World Cup comes around, us Nigerians are Africans, too, writes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

January 2009

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    Chinasa, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Literacy is at the heart of the campaign to ensure all the world's children go to school. A specially written story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers a remarkable picture of the power of education

December 2008

  • The Guardian Hay festival 2007, day eleven Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Hay-On-Wye 03-06-2007.

    A Private Experience: a short story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Two women caught up in a violent street riot take shelter in an abandoned shop. A short story by the Orange Prize-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

June 2008

  • 'As a child, I thought my father invincible. I also thought him remote'

    My old man: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

April 2008

  • Nigeria's immorality is about hypocrisy, not miniskirts

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A bill that seeks to stop women dressing indecently shows how warped our notions of culture have become

February 2008

  • Sex in the city

    Commentary: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the joy of reading the late Nigerian novelist Cyprian Ekwensi

June 2007

  • Books blog
    The exemplary chronicler of an African tragedy

  • Extract: Half of a Yellow Sun

September 2006

  • Truth and lies

    When Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie came to write a novel about Biafra, she drew not only on her own past, but the war fiction of Shimmer Chinodya and Chinua Achebe.

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