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Chimamanda Honored By American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Unic Press UK: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian prolific novelist/story writer, has been elected as “Foreign Honorary Member” of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, United States.

The American Academy of Arts and Letters, which was founded in 1898 as an honor society of the United States leading writers, artists, composers, and architects, said:

“When the American Academy of Arts and Letters holds its annual induction and award ceremony in mid-May, Calvin Trillin, secretary, will induct fourteen members into the 250-person organization and President Yehudi Wyner will induct three foreign honorary members… Foreign Honorary Members CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE, writer of Nigeria, KAIJA SAARIAHO, composer of Finland, ZADIE SMITH, writer of England.” (http://artsandletters.org/pressrelease/2017-newly-elected-members/)

Chimamanda, a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship is the author of several novels, including:

  • Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.
  • Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.
  • Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction.

 

 

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