Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ( born September 15, 1977 in Enugu ) is a Nigerian writer who now lives partly in Nigeria and partly in the United States.
Life
Chimamandas native language is Igbo, their family comes from Abba in Anambra State. Her father was the first statistics professor in the country. She was born the fifth of six children and grew up in the university town of Nsukka in what was once inhabited by Chinua Achebe house. After her graduation she began a study in Nigeria, but soon came with 19 years in the United States. In 2001 she graduated from there a study of communication and political science summa cum laude. From 2005 to 2006 Chimamanda Hodder fellow was at Princeton University, in 2008 she received at Yale University Master's degree in African studies.
Her novels have been in several languages, including German, Spanish and Dutch translated.
Works
- For Love of Biafra ( For the Love of Biafra ), Drama. Ibadan 1998
- Decisions ( decisions) poems. London 1998
- You in America, short story, in: Zoetrope: . All- Story Extra Issue 38 Winter 2001 ( nominated 2002 ( Shortlist ) for the doped with $ 15,000 international Caine Prize )
- Purple Hibiscus ( dt: Blue Hibiscus, translation:. Schwaab Judith Munich 2005 ), Roman. Chapel Hill and London, 2003, New York, 2004. ( Included in the shortlist for the British Orange Prize for Fiction in 2004 and the Hurston / Wright LEGACY Award for Debut Fiction Award )
- Half of a Yellow Sun, short story, in: Literary Potpourri 12, Issue: November 2002 Also in: . Zoetrope: All- Story 7.2, output: Summer 2003, awarded the Anisfield - Wolf Book Award
- The thing around your neck ( The thing around your neck ), short story, in: Prospect 99, June 2004.
- Half of a Yellow Sun ( dt: Half of the sun; translation. Schwaab Judith February 2007), Roman. New York. Awarded the doped with £ 30,000 Orange Prize for Fiction 2006.
- Tomorrow is too far ( Tomorrow is too far away), short story, in: Prospect 118, January 2006.
- Life During Wartime: Sierra Leone, 1997 ( Life during wartime: Sierra Leone, 1997) report, in: New York, 12 June 2006.
- Buildings fall down, pensions Are not paid, politicians are murdered, riots are in the air ... and yet I love Nigeria ( Buildings collapse pensions are not paid, politicians are murdered, riots are in the air and ... I still love Nigeria ) articles, in: Guardian, UK v. 8 of August 2006.
- The Thing Around Your Neck, collection of short stories, published in 2009 at Fourth Estate German Reinhild Boehnke: visitations. Twelve stories. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-000625-7.