A reading by novelist Chimamanda Adichie

Presented by Writers Without Borders

"Writers Without Borders" features writers from around the world whose fiction, drama, poetry, memoir, journalism, and performance art demand an international — and, what's more, a globally minded — readership and response. Support for Writers without Borders comes from the Office of the Provost, supplemented by a generous start-up grant from Seth Ginns (C'00).

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE was born in Nigeria in 1977. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was also short-listed for the Orange Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and long-listed for the Booker. Her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) is set before and during the Biafran War. Her collection of short stories, The Thing around Your Neck, was published in 2009. In 2010, Adichie was featured in The New Yorker's "20 Under 40" Fiction Issue. She holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins and a Masters degree in African Studies from Yale. She divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

This program originally occurred on November 9, 2010. For more information, please visit: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/1110.php#09

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