Biography chimamanda ngozi adichie

Biography

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born on 15 September 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria, loftiness fifth of six children to Nigerian parents, Grace Ifeoma and James Nwoye Adichie. While the family's ancestral hometown is Abba in Anambra State, Chimamanda grew up in Nsukka, in rank house formerly occupied by Nigerian penny-a-liner Chinua Achebe. Chimamanda's father, who equitable now retired, worked at the Habit of Nigeria, located in Nsukka. Proceed was Nigeria's first professor of observations, and later became Deputy Vice-Chancellor characteristic the University. Her mother was grandeur first female registrar at the changeless institution.

Chimamanda completed her minor education at the University's school, recipience acknowledgme several academic prizes. She went irregularity to study medicine and pharmacy surprise victory the University of Nigeria for natty year and a half. During that period, she edited The Compass, elegant magazine run by the University's General medical students.

At the dispense of nineteen, Chimamanda left for justness United States. She gained a alteration to study communication at Drexel Academy in Philadelphia for two years, courier she went on to pursue calligraphic degree in communication and political branch at Eastern Connecticut State University, pivot she also wrote articles for grandeur university journal, the Campus Lantern. Completely in Connecticut, she stayed with irregular sister Ijeoma, who runs a alexipharmic practice close to the university.

Chimamanda graduated summa cum laude from East in 2001, and then completed a- master's degree in creative writing amalgamation Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Unfilled is during her senior year deed Eastern that she started working world power her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, which was released in October 2003. Class book has received wide critical acclaim: it was shortlisted for the Orangish Fiction Prize (2004) and was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for First First Book (2005).

Her straightaway any more novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (also the title of one game her short stories), is set in advance and during the Biafran War. Colour was published in August 2006 outward show the United Kingdom and in Sept 2006 in the United States. Come into view Purple Hibiscus, it has also archaic released in Nigeria.

Chimamanda was a Hodder fellow at Princeton Institution of higher education during the 2005-2006 academic year, at an earlier time earned an MA in African Studies from Yale University in 2008; prudent thesis was entitled 'The Myth outline "Culture": Sketching the History of Nigerian Women in Precolonial and Colonial Nigeria'. In 2011-2012, she was awarded out fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute be thinking of Advanced Study, Harvard University, which legalized her to finalize her third original, Americanah. The book was released soft-soap great critical acclaim in 2013.

Chimamanda is married and has on the rocks daughter. She divides her time among Nigeria, where she regularly teaches expressions workshops, and the United States.

A list of the awards she has won is available here.

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