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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian author. She has won numerous accolades for her works, including general literature prizes and academic honours. Her short stories have garnered multiple awards including the O. Henry Award for "The American Embassy" and BBC National Short Story Award for "That Harmattan Morning". Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus, won the Best First Book category of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Best Debut Fiction in 2005. Since the paperback publication of her second novel Half of a Yellow Sun in 2007, The Guardian reported that it had sold only 187,000 copies, yet won the Women's Prize for Fiction – which was then the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction – for which it competed against a book by a Man Booker Prize winner and a US bestseller. Along with Ernest Hardy, Harryette Mullen, and Alberto Ríos, she also won the PEN Beyond Margins Award. Her third novel, Americanah, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2013. Her short story collection, The Thing Around Your Neck, was nominated for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2010 and her book-length essay Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions won the PEN Pinter Prize, and the Grand Prix de l'héroïne Madame Figaro for its French translation. Adichie's fourth novel Dream Count was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2025.