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13Dec2020

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Receives Africa Freedom Prize 2020

Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche has been awarded The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom “Africa Freedom Prize 2020”.

“Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the long-lost, undogmatic voice of liberal feminism in the 21st century. She represents the success and self-image of a new generation of African women writers who are increasingly making their voices heard on the world literary stage. In her fight for freedom and self-determination for women, Adichie contributes to the consolidation of liberal values ​​and goals – not only in Africa, but all over the world ”, explains Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Paqué, Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, the jury’s decision.

The award will be presented digitally on 14 December 2020.

Read the full article here.
24Nov2020

Half of A Yellow Sun wins The Women’s Prize Winner of Winners

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction ‘Winner of Winners’ for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun. The public chose Chimamanda’s novel over a stellar-line up including Zadie Smith, the late Andrea Levy, Lionel Shriver, Rose Tremain and Maggie O’Farrell, amongst others.
This one-off award marks the culmination of the Prize’s year-long 25th anniversary celebrations, forming a key part of The Women’s Prize Reading Women campaign which champions a quarter of a century of phenomenal winners.
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24Nov2020

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Receives 2020 International Hermann Hesse Prize

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and her translator Judith Schwaab will receive the International Hermann Hesse Prize 2020. This was announced by the board of the Calw Hermann Hesse Foundation. The prize is one of the most renowned German literary prizes. It recognizes “a literary achievement of international standing in connection with its translation” – so it says in the statute.

The statement of the jury stated literally: “Adichie draws the portraits of the people so finely that you can empathize with each one, including the secondary characters, and feel with them. The culture of Nigeria, the nature, the different languages, the food and manners are portrayed so vividly that you can literally feel transported there.”

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24Nov2020

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Delivers University of Pennysylvania Commencement Address and Receives Honorary Degree

On Monday, May 18th, 2020, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered the address at the University of Pennsylvania’s 264th Commencement and was awarded an honorary degree. She is the first Black woman to deliver the address since 1978.

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24Nov2020

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Receives Woman of The Decade Award from This Day

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a Woman of The Decade Award from ThisDay Nigeria. She was selected as the editor’s choice and the award was presented to her by the iconic poet/playwright, JP Clark.

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24Nov2020

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Receives first Belle van Zuylen Ring

On January 11th, 2020, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received the first Belle van Zuylen Ring, an honorary prize set by the ILFU International Literature Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands. She was honored with the prize because of the unique way in which she knows how to display and question the world of today and its ingrained thinking patterns. The ring is a new international honorary prize, established by the ILFU in collaboration with the municipality of Utrecht for writers who reflect in an explicit and relevant way on contemporary society in their work.

She also delivered the Belle van Zuylen Lecture and was in conversation with Nancy Jouwe.

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24Nov2020

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie named on This Day’s List of 20 Women Who Will Shape Events in Nigeria in 2020

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was named on This Day’s list of 20 Women Who Will Shape Events in Nigeria in 2020. Others on the list include Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nation, Amina J Mohammed, Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, amongst others.

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24Nov2020

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is awarded The 2019 BookCity Milano Prize

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has received the 2019 BookCity Milano Prize at The BookCity Milano Prize in Italy. The prize aims to present the work of a writer who, through his/her compositions, could have been a witness of co-existence and civilization.

The award ceremony took place on the 16th of November, 2019 at The Triennale Theatre, Italy.

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16Nov2020

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE NAMED ON OOOM MAGAZINE’S WORLD’S MOST INSPIRING PEOPLE IN 2019

Chimamanda Adichie has been named on OOOM Magazine’s list of the World’s Most Inspiring People in 2019.
Compiled by an international jury, the annual list features inspiring individuals who have impressed the world in the past year. Others on the list include Former US First Lady, Michelle Obama, Pope Francis, Bill Gates, and Oprah Winfrey, amongst others.
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16Nov2020

HALF OF A YELLOW SUN NAMED IN BBC’S LIST OF 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD

Half of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie has been named in the BBC’s list of “100 Novels That Shaped Our World.” The list covers English language novels written over the past 300 years.

Other writers on the list include Jane Austen (for “Pride and Prejudice”); Chinua Achebe (“Things Fall Apart”); Ernest Hemingway (“For Whom The Bell Tolls”); Charles Dickens (“Our Mutual Friend”), JK Rowling (the “Harry Potter” series); Ben Okri (“Astonishing The Gods”); and Toni Morrison (“Beloved”)

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