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Friday 14 March 2014

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wins US National Critics Book Prize



Popular Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has won the US National Critics Book Prize for her novel Americanah.

Adichie's for her novel, Americanah, was chosen over Donna Tartt's (author of The Goldfinch) and three other finalists to emerge winner of the National Book Critics Circle prize for fiction.

Some of her other works include Half of a Yellow Sun – which earned her the UK's Orange Prize – and Purple Hibiscus.

For non-fiction category, it was Sheri Fink's book on Hurricane Katrina that clinched the prize.

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