Biographie de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up on the campus of the University of Nigeria in Nsukka. Her work is read around the world, and has been translated into over thirty languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award ; Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize (now called the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction), the world's top prize for female writers ; a short story collection, The Thing Around Your Neck ; and Americanah, which won the US National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of the New York Times Top Ten Best Books of the Year.
In addition to her writing, Chimamanda speaks at many events around the world. Her first TED Talk, delivered in 2009, was titled The Danger of A Single Story and is now one of the top ten most viewed TED Talks of all time. Her second, We Should All Be Feminists, has helped to stimulate a worldwide conversation about feminism and was published as a book in 2015. Chimamanda is committed to assisting young aspiring writers, and founded an annual Writers' Workshop in Nigeria for which applications come from around the world.