Great! Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wins US National Critics Book Prize

This is a nice news! Nigerian writer; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie just won the US National Critics Book Prize for her novel Americanah. 

The book which tells the story of a Nigerian woman who moves to the US to pursue a college education.

It should be recalled that in 2008, her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, won the UK’s Orange Prize and Purple Hibiscus was subsequently longlisted for the Booker Prize four years earlier.

Furthermore, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie is also in the running for the UK’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction – formerly known as the Orange Prize – for Americanah.

The National Critics Book Prize was first awarded in 1974 and is open to writers of all nationalities whose work has been published in the US.

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