Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is remembered in literature for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as Nigerian writer (born 1977).
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in 1977. Her recorded nationality is Nigeria. She was educated at Yale University and Johns Hopkins University.
Modern careers are conducted in public and at speed, with reputations formed and revised far faster than the work itself changes.
The record gives her occupations as cook, poet and novelist.
Her affiliations include Wesleyan University.
Among her principal works are Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah. Books outlive their reviews, and the ones that last are seldom the ones that sold.
Her recorded fields of work are poetry.
Her work was formally recognised with the O. Henry Award, Women's Prize for Fiction and Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
Working from Nigeria shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Notable work: Half of a Yellow Sun
- Notable work: Americanah
- Affiliated with Wesleyan University
- Educated at Yale University, Johns Hopkins University and Eastern Connecticut State University
- Worked as cook, poet and novelist
