The Britain’s Orange Prize for fiction by women was won by Nigeria’s Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie . With this she has become the first African to take the award in its history of 12-year. Adichie is also the youngest author to have won the prize. She is just 29. She was awarded the prize for her novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, whose background is the Nigeria-Biafra conflict of the 1960s. The award includes $60,000 as the cash prize.
Yellow Sun had also entered as a finalist this year for the National Book Critics Circle fiction prize. Adichie had also been a finalist for her debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which came out in 2004.
Source: USAtoday
