Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Auteur van Amerikanah
Over de Auteur
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria on September 15, 1977. She studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half before moving to the United States, where she studied communication at Drexel University for two years. She received a bachelor's degree in toon meer communication and political science at Eastern Connecticut State University in 2001, a master's degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, and a master's degree in African Studies from Yale University in 2008. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, was published in 2003 and received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in 2005. Her other books include The Thing around Your Neck, Americanah, and We Should All Be Feminist. Half of a Yellow Sun won the Orange Prize in 2007. She was awarded the 2018 PEN Pinter Prize, for her body of work that shows 'outstanding literary merit'. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Photo: Okey Adichie
Werken van Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017) 1,532 exemplaren, 71 besprekingen
The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners (2021) — Redacteur — 68 exemplaren, 5 besprekingen
A Private Experience 9 exemplaren
Above All Else, Do Not Lie 6 exemplaren
Of This Our Country: Essays from some of Nigeria’s greatest writers, including Ayobami Adebayo, Inua Ellams,… (2021) 4 exemplaren
Olikoye 3 exemplaren
Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah, Purple Hibiscus: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Three-Book Collection (2014) 3 exemplaren
Quella cosa intorno al collo 2 exemplaren
なにかが首のまわりに (河出文庫 ア 10-1) 2 exemplaren
Birdsong 2 exemplaren
Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds 2 exemplaren
The Grief of Strangers 2 exemplaren
The Jumping Monkey Hill 2 exemplaren
Checking Out 2 exemplaren
Ofodile 2 exemplaren
Real Food 2 exemplaren
Poetizando Singular - eBook 1 exemplaar
KAHA PATA IRA PALUWAK 1 exemplaar
Ghosts 1 exemplaar
Keder Üzerine 1 exemplaar
Miracle 1 exemplaar
The American Embassy 1 exemplaar
My Mother, the Crazy African 1 exemplaar
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Archive 1 exemplaar
Janelle Asked to the Bedroom 1 exemplaar
The Time Story 1 exemplaar
How Did You Feel About It? 1 exemplaar
The best short stories 1 exemplaar
Il tremito (in Quella cosa intorno al collo) 1 exemplaar
Cella uno (in Quella cosa intorno al collo) 1 exemplaar
L'imitazione (in Quella cosa intorno al collo) 1 exemplaar
Spettri (in Quella cosa intorno al collo) 1 exemplaar
Kvelningsfornemmelser 1 exemplaar
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This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers (2006) — Medewerker — 344 exemplaren, 3 besprekingen
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (2019) — Medewerker — 90 exemplaren, 1 bespreking
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Medewerker — 79 exemplaren
Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2009) — Medewerker — 73 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen
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Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara (2014) — Medewerker — 66 exemplaren, 3 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 50 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2017) — Medewerker — 54 exemplaren, 3 besprekingen
Courage Is Contagious and Other Reasons to Be Grateful for Michelle Obama (2017) — Medewerker — 38 exemplaren, 1 bespreking
The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing (2011) — Medewerker — 33 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen
Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian Writers on the Home, Identity, and Culture They Know (2021) — Medewerker — 12 exemplaren
Discovering Home: A Selection of Writings from the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing (2003) — Medewerker — 7 exemplaren
Things Fall Apart / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Half of a Yellow Sun (2018) — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
群像 2010年 08月号 [雑誌] — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Adichie, Amanda N. (early pen name)
Adichie, Amanda Ngozi (early pen name)
Grace-James, Nwa (pen name) - Geboortedatum
- 1977-09-15 | Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Nigeria
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Nigeria
- Geboorteplaats
- Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria
- Woonplaatsen
- Nsukka, Nigeria
USA - Opleiding
- University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
Eastern Connecticut State University (BA | Communication and Political Science)
Johns Hopkins University (Mx ∙ Creative writing)
Yale University (MA ∙ African history)
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - Beroepen
- writer
- Organisaties
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Honorary member, 2017)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- MacArthur Fellowship (2008)
PEN Pinter prize (2018)
Hodder Fellow - Agent
- The Wylie Agency
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September 2023: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Monthly Author Reads (oktober 2023)
Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in World Reading Circle (januari 2014)
GROUP READ: Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (augustus 2012)
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