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.