Her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, also the title of one of her short stories, is set before and during the Biafran War. The book has received wide critical acclaim: it was shortlisted for the Orange Fiction Prize (2004) and was awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (2005). It is during her senior year at Eastern that she started working on her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, which was released in October 2003.
While in Connecticut, she stayed with her sister Igeoma, who runs a medical practice close to the university.Ĭhimamanda graduated summa cum laude from Eastern in 2001, and then completed a master’s degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. She gained a scholarship to study communication at Drexel University in Philadelphia for two years, and she went on to pursue a degree in communication and political science at Eastern Connecticut State University. During this period, she edited The Compass, a magazine run by the University’s Catholic medical students.Īt the age of nineteen, Chimamanda left for the United States. She went on to study medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half. Her mother was the first female registrar at the same institution.Ĭhimamanda completed her secondary education at the University’s school, receiving several academic prizes. He was Nigeria’s first professor of statistics, and later became Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University. Chimamanda’s father, who is now retired, worked at the University of Nigeria, located in Nsukka. While the family’s ancestral hometown is Abba in Anambra State, Chimamanda grew up in Nsukka, in the house formerly occupied by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. Half of a Yellow Sun is licensed for publication in 37 languages.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born on 15 September 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria, the fifth of six children to Igbo parents, Grace Ifeoma and James Nwoye Adichie. As Nigerian troops advance and they must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another.Įpic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race-and about the ways in which love can complicate them all. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna’s twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. Olanna is the professor’s beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover.
Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade.
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