Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wins the Britain’s Orange Prize for fiction by women
by admin on Jan.28, 2012, under Latest Book
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
