with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Novelist & essayist
Loading countdown…
Add to calendarOur season four opener: Adichie on the discarded narrator of Half of a Yellow Sun and the memoirs she read until she stopped being frightened.
Nine hundred seats, gone in a morning. The best exchange came from the floor, a history student who challenged the 1967 dinner table scene, and got a ten minute answer.
Born in Enugu and raised on the University of Nigeria campus in Nsukka, Adichie left medicine for literature and published Purple Hibiscus at twenty six. Her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, took four years and a discarded narrator, and remains the book she is asked about most. She divides her time between Lagos and the United States and runs an annual writing workshop in Nigeria.
Listen to episode 126 →Also with Chimamanda
Festival stageUpcomingPurple Hibiscus · Algonquin, 2003
with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Novelist & essayist
Women's Prize for Fiction, 2007
Our first West African recording: an open air conversation about complication as a moral argument.
Loading countdown…
In conversationUpcomingHalf of a Yellow Sun · Fourth Estate, 2006
with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Novelist & essayist
Women's Prize for Fiction, 2007
On the readers who still write about a debut published two decades ago, and what she would change now.
Loading countdown…
