On July 27th, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will receive an Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLit) degree during the July 2018 graduation ceremonies of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

The other awardees are actor/social activist Forest Whitaker, author Dr Jung Chang, film curator June Givanni, and lawyer/human rights activist Vrinda Grover.

English PEN has named Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie the winner of the 2018 PEN Pinter Prize.

The prize, named in honor of playwright and Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, is given annually to a writer of “outstanding literary merit from Britain, the Republic of Ireland or the Commonwealth who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize in Literature speech, casts an ‘unflinching, unswerving’ gaze upon the world and shows a ‘fierce intellectual determination … to define the real truth of our lives and our societies’.” Each winner shares the prize with an international Writer of Courage who is active in the defense of freedom of expression, often at great risk to his/her own safety and liberty.

Ms. Adichie will accept the award during a ceremony at the British Library on October 9, 2018. The 2018 Writer of Courage will also be announced on this date.

On Sunday, May 20th, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will receive an honorary degree from Amherst College during its 197th Commencement exercises, alongside five other individuals:

-Classicist and political theorist Danielle Allen
-Civil rights activist Morris Dees
-Environmental security advocate Sherri Goodman
-Art historian and curator Kellie Jones
-Children’s health advocate Philip J. Landrigan

On May 26th, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will receive an honorary degree from Bowdoin College alongside chemist and Nobel laureate Thomas R. Cech and former diplomat and government official Susan E. Rice.

On Sunday, May 13, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will receive an honorary degree from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Ms. Adichie’s visit to Duke University in 2018 will be particularly special, as her 2013 book Americanah was selected as the pre-matriculation summer reading assignment for this year’s graduating class. She visited Duke in September 2014 to discuss her book with the members of the Class of 2018, who were then first-year students.

Ms. Adichie will be one of six honorees at the 2018 commencement ceremony.

POETS & WRITERS: In March 2018, Chimamanda Adichie will be honored by Poets & Writers alongside writers Steve Cannon and Richard Russo, as well as editor Rebecca Galetan.

Adichie will receive the 2018 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, which was established by Poets & Writers in 1996 to recognize authors who have given generously to other writers or to the broader literary community.

THE CABLE: Chimamanda Adichie has been selected by the Albert Einstein Foundation as one of the leading visionaries of our time alongside Oby Ezekwesili, Nigeria’s former Minister of Education.

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH: On August 26th, acclaimed Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Edinburgh at St Cecilia’s Hall. The award was presented by the University’s Principal and Vice Chancellor, Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea.

While in Edinburgh, Ms. Adichie took part in the Edinburgh International Book Festival, during which she was interviewed by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

THE GUARDIAN (NG): “Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been named one of three winners of Le Grand Prix de l’héroïne Madame Figaro.

The prize was established in 2006 by the French magazine Madame Figaro to celebrate heroines of French and foreign literature. Out of 15 candidates for 2017, the jurors selected one French novel, one foreign novel in translation, and one biography, memoir, or nonfiction work. Chère Ijeawele, ou un manifeste pour une éducation féministe (Ed. Gallimard), the French translation of Dear Ijeawele, was selected as the winner in the latter category.

Along with Adichie, Alex Stresi was awarded the prize in the French novel category for Lopping (Ed. Stock), and Lauren Groff received the foreign novel prize for Les Furies (Ed. De l’Olivier).