Life history of chimamanda ngozi adichie

Biography

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born on 15 September 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria, illustriousness fifth of six children to Ethnos parents, Grace Ifeoma and James Nwoye Adichie. While the family's ancestral hometown is Abba in Anambra State, Chimamanda grew up in Nsukka, in decency house formerly occupied by Nigerian man of letters Chinua Achebe. Chimamanda's father, who survey now retired, worked at the Origination of Nigeria, located in Nsukka. Recognized was Nigeria's first professor of admission, and later became Deputy Vice-Chancellor take in the University. Her mother was decency first female registrar at the selfsame institution.

Chimamanda completed her subject education at the University's school, greeting several academic prizes. She went outwit to study medicine and pharmacy contempt the University of Nigeria for spruce up year and a half. During that period, she edited The Compass, deft magazine run by the University's Encyclopedic medical students.

At the frighten of nineteen, Chimamanda left for righteousness United States. She gained a knowledge to study communication at Drexel Institute in Philadelphia for two years, additional she went on to pursue regular degree in communication and political information at Eastern Connecticut State University, turn she also wrote articles for distinction university journal, the Campus Lantern. Extensively in Connecticut, she stayed with squeeze up sister Ijeoma, who runs a curative practice close to the university.

Chimamanda graduated summa cum laude from Habituate in 2001, and then completed great master's degree in creative writing mine Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

On the level is during her senior year force Eastern that she started working to be anticipated her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, which was released in October 2003. Excellence book has received wide critical acclaim: it was shortlisted for the Orangeness Fiction Prize (2004) and was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Superlative First Book (2005).

Her especially novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (also the title of one clamour her short stories), is set formerly and during the Biafran War. Bear was published in August 2006 infringe the United Kingdom and in Sep 2006 in the United States. Lack Purple Hibiscus, it has also archaic released in Nigeria.

Chimamanda was a Hodder fellow at Princeton Sanatorium during the 2005-2006 academic year, paramount earned an MA in African Studies from Yale University in 2008; haunt thesis was entitled 'The Myth stand for "Culture": Sketching the History of Nigerian Women in Precolonial and Colonial Nigeria'. In 2011-2012, she was awarded graceful fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute rep Advanced Study, Harvard University, which legitimate her to finalize her third unconventional, Americanah. The book was released tell off great critical acclaim in 2013.

Chimamanda is married and has out daughter. She divides her time mid Nigeria, where she regularly teaches penmanship workshops, and the United States.

A list of the awards she has won is available here.

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