Behind the Book
3D mock-up of the book cover for Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In conversationUpcoming

Late listening room: the chapter I nearly cut

with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — Novelist & essayist

Date
Thu, January 1, 1970
Time
local
Venue
Online listening room, Worldwide

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What happens in the room

A small online session: one chapter read aloud, then half an hour of questions in the chat.

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About Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • Women's Prize for Fiction, 2007
  • Women's Prize 'Winner of Winners', 2020
  • MacArthur Fellowship, 2008

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.

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Also with Chimamanda

3D mock-up of the book cover for Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieLive recordingUpcoming

Half of a Yellow Sun · Fourth Estate, 2006

The Nsukka notebooks: four years inside one novel

with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — Novelist & essayist

Women's Prize for Fiction, 2007

Date
Wed, January 14, 2026
Time
local time
Venue
Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK

Our season-four opener: Adichie on the discarded narrator of Half of a Yellow Sun and the memoirs she read until she stopped being frightened.

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3D mock-up of the book cover for Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieFestival stageUpcoming

Half of a Yellow Sun · Fourth Estate, 2006

Festival stage: the single story, twenty years on

with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — Novelist & essayist

Women's Prize for Fiction, 2007

Date
Wed, April 22, 2026
Time
local time
Venue
Freedom Park, Lagos, NG

Our first West African recording: an open-air conversation about complication as a moral argument.

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