“The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their heart." -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, born on this date in
1977, grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into 30 languages and
has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The
O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope.
Winner of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
(known as “The Genius Grant”), she is the author of the novels Purple
Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, and Americanah and the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Americanah, published in 2013, has received numerous
accolades, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
and The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction; and one of The New York
Times Ten Best Books of the Year.
As for non-fiction, which she is exploring in more detail, she noted, “Non-fiction,
and in particular the literary memoir, the stylized recollection of personal
experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction
is.
“I am drawn, as a reader, to
detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as
by the external, (what) Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost
about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds'.”
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