Ace Nigerian author,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is clearly having the best month of her life as she promotes her new book – “
Americanah“.
Here’s another reason for her to go dancing in the wind - she has won the
US National Critics Book Prize for her novel 'Americanah'.
The book was also selected as one of The New York Times’ 10 best books of 2013.
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.
Americanah was published in May 2013 by
Alfred A. Knopf. It's a fictional novel that unravels the story of a young Nigerian woman who emigrates to America for a university education.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(born 15 September 1977) has been called "the most prominent" of a
"procession of critically acclaimed young Anglophone authors [that] is
succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to
African literature", and her string of awards keep substantiating that claim.
Congratulations to her!
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