Breaking: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie announced top Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction
Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has won the Women’s Prize 'Winner of Winners' award, for her novel, Half Of A Yellow Sun.
The 'Winner of Winners’ award is a special category of this year’s Women’s Prize to mark its 25th year. It sought to award the best winner from all past 25 winners of the Prize, and readers were invited to vote their preferred title before the midnight of 1st November.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who had earlier won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2007, was voted in thousands for the category, the Women’s Prize confirms.
“You voted in your thousands and picked her novel Half of a Yellow Sun from 25 years of unforgettable #WomensPrize winning books,” the announcement read in part.
What is spectacular about Chimamanda’s win is that in 2014, she won the Women’s Prize 'Best of the Best’; a special category at the time, given to the best winner of the Prize’s second decade: 2004 — 2014.
Furthering on to win the 'Winner of Winners’ in 2020, it won’t be a reach to say that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the greatest writer to have ever won the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Chimamanda who triumphed over writers like Zadie Smith, the late Andrea Levy, Lionel Shriver, Ali Smith, Rose Tremain and Maggie O’Farrell, amongst others, told the Women’s Prize that she’s especially moved to be voted ‘Winner of Winners’.
“This is the Prize that first brought a wide readership to my work – and has also introduced me to the work of many talented writers,” she said regarding her first Women’s Prize win.
Chimamanda will be presented with a silver edition of the Prize’s annual statuette, known as the ‘Bessie’, which was originally created and donated by the artist Grizel Niven as part of the gift of an anonymous donor.
There will also be a Live event with her where she will talk about her writing and being chosen for the ‘Winner of Winners’ award. It will be hosted by Women’s Prize Founder Director Kate Mosse, on Sunday 6 December at 7pm GMT, 8PM WAT. Get a ticket here.
Half of A Yellow Sun tells the story of the Biafran War through the perspective of the characters Olanna, Ugwu, and Richard. It is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race—and about the ways in which love can complicate them all.
It has previously won Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (fiction category), 2007’; PEN ‘Beyond Margins’ Award (now called PEN Open Book Awards), 2007; Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (now called Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction), 2007; Winner of the ‘Best of the Best’ of the second decade of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, 2015.
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