Americanah

About the author

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE is the author of Purple Hibiscus, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Half of a Yellow Sun, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction "Winner of Winners" award; and Americanah, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her books have been translated into fifty six languages, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Th e New York Times, Granta, and Financial Times. She grew up in Nigeria and divides her time between there and the United States.