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Chimamanda Adichie
Fiction Writer | Class of 2008
Exploring the circumstances that lead to ethnic conflict in richly imagined novels and stories inspired by events in her native Nigeria.

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Title
Fiction Writer
Location
Columbia, Maryland
Age
31 at time of award
Area of Focus
Fiction and Nonfiction Writing
Published January 27, 2008
ABOUT CHIMAMANDA'S WORK
Chimamanda Adichie is a young writer who illuminates the complexities of human experience in works inspired by events in her native Nigeria. Adichie explores the intersection of the personal and the public by placing the intimate details of the lives of her characters within the larger social and political forces in contemporary Nigeria. Dividing her time over the last decade between the United States and Nigeria, she is widely appreciated for her stark yet balanced depiction of events in the post-colonial era. In her most recent novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), Adichie unflinchingly portrays the horror and destruction of the civil war following the establishment of the Republic of Biafra. Using multiple narrative voices, a precise movement back and forth in time, and prose that is at once witty and empathetic, she immerses the reader in the psyches of her characters, whose loyalties to each other and their ideals are tested as their world gradually falls apart. In humanizing the Biafran tragedy, Adichie’s novel has enriched conversation about the war within Nigeria while also offering insight into the circumstances that lead to ethnic conflict. A writer of great promise, Adichie’s powerful rendering of the Nigerian experience is enlightening audiences both in her homeland and around the world.

BIOGRAPHY
Chimamanda Adichie received a B.A. (2001) from Eastern Connecticut State University, an M.A. (2003) from Johns Hopkins University, and an M.A. (2008) from Yale University. Her additional works include the novel Purple Hibiscus (2003) and short stories that have appeared in such publications as the New Yorker, Granta, and the Virginia Quarterly Review.



奇玛曼达-阿迪奇
小说家 | 2008级
探讨导致种族冲突的情况，其丰富的想象力的小说和故事的灵感来自她的家乡尼日利亚的事件。

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标题
小说家
地点
哥伦比亚，马里兰州
年龄
获奖时为31岁
重点领域
小说和非小说写作
发表于2008年1月27日
关于奇玛曼达的作品
奇玛曼达-阿迪奇是一位年轻的作家，她的作品受到她的祖国尼日利亚的事件的启发，阐明了人类经验的复杂性。阿迪奇通过将她笔下人物的生活细节置于当代尼日利亚更大的社会和政治力量中，探索个人和公众的交集。在过去的十年中，她在美国和尼日利亚两地奔波，因其对后殖民时代的事件的严酷而平衡的描述而受到广泛赞赏。在她最近的小说《黄色太阳的一半》（2006年）中，阿迪奇毫不留情地描绘了比夫拉共和国成立后的内战的恐怖和破坏。她使用多种叙事声音，精确地来回移动时间，以及既诙谐又富有同情心的散文，使读者沉浸在她笔下人物的精神世界中，随着他们的世界逐渐瓦解，他们对彼此和理想的忠诚度受到考验。阿迪奇的小说将比亚夫的悲剧人性化，丰富了关于尼日利亚国内战争的对话，同时也让人们深入了解导致种族冲突的情况。阿迪奇是一位很有前途的作家，她对尼日利亚经验的有力渲染正在启迪她的祖国和世界各地的观众。

个人简历
奇玛曼达-阿迪奇在东康涅狄格州立大学获得学士学位（2001年），在约翰-霍普金斯大学获得硕士学位（2003年），并在耶鲁大学获得硕士学位（2008年）。她的其他作品包括小说《紫色木槿花》（2003年）和发表在《纽约客》、《格兰塔》和《弗吉尼亚季刊》等刊物上的短篇小说。