CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE WINS BAIELYS AWARD WORTH £30,000 she was crowned "the best of the best"


Chimamanda Adichie
Award winning author wins top women's fiction award

Adichie won the "Best of the Best" award as part of the celebrations to mark 20 years of the annual £30,000 prize.
 
Award winning writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun has topped a list of the last decade's winners of the Baileys Women's Fiction Prize.

The Nigerian author won in 2007 for her story, her second novel, set during the Biafran War of the 1960s.

Adicihie said she was "grateful and happy", adding: "This is a prize I have a lot of respect and admiration for."

The 38-year-old novelist continued saying,: "Over the years it's [the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction] brought wonderful literature to a wide readership that might not have found many of the books.

"I have a lot of respect for the books that have won in the past 10 years and also for the books that have been shortlisted - I feel I am in very good company."


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