Photo: Chimamanda Adichie Becomes First Nigerian To Win McCarthy Prize

Award wining Nigerian Author and renowned writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has become the first Nigerian to be awarded the Mary McCarthy Prize.

The Mary McCarthy Prize in short fiction includes a cash award, publication of a collection of short stories, standard royalty contract and a short novel or novella.

See letter from the McCarthy Prize:

She attended the Mary McCarthy Prize in Bard College as a special guest.

Chimamanda’s first novel Purple Hibiscus published in 2003 won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and has been translated to over 30 languages.

Her second novel Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) won the Bailey’s Women’s Prize which is the world’s top prize for female writers.

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