Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian author and public speaker. She has won numerous accolades for her novels and short stories, including literature prizes, doctorate honours from Universities and fashion awards. Purple Hibiscus has garnered multiple awards. In 2006 the second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, was nominated for a National Book Award.
Adichie's early career awards includes the BBC Short Story Competition in 2002 for her short story, "That Harmattan Morning" and the O. Henry Prize in 2003 for "The American Embassy". Purple Hibiscus won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in 2004 under the Best Debut Fiction category and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2005 for the African Best First Book. Half of a Yellow Sun won in 2007: the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award under the fiction category, a joint winner with Martha Collins for Blue Front PEN 'Beyond Margins' Award, joint winner with Ernest Hardy for Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. It also won the David T. Wong International Short Story Prize and the 2002/2003 Pen Center Award. Adichie won the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in 2008. Her third novel, Americanah won the 2009 International Nonino Prize, and in 2013 fiction category won: Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award.
Career awards
State
| Year | Country | Honour | Citation | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Nigeria | Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) | National honor | rejected |
Academic
| Year | Institution | Honour | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Eastern Connecticut State University | Honorary degree | |
| 2016 | Johns Hopkins University | Honorary degree | |
| 2017 | Haverford College, Pennsylvania | Honorary degree | |
| University of Edinburgh | Doctor of Letters | ||
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Foreign Honorary Member | ||
| 2018 | Duke University | Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree | |
| Amherst College | Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree | ||
| Bowdoin College | Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree | ||
| SOAS University of London | Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLit) | ||
| 2019 | American University | Honorary degree | |
| Georgetown University | Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree | ||
| Rhode Island School of Design | Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree | ||
| Yale University | Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa | ||
| Northwestern University | Honorary degree | ||
| 2020 | University of Pennsylvania | Honorary degree | |
| 2022 | UCLouvain | Honorary Doctorate | |
| University of Johannesburg | Honorary Doctorate | ||
| Harvard University | W.E.B. Du Bois Medal |
Popular culture
| Year | Awarded by | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | The Future Awards Africa | Young Person of the Year | Won | |
| MacArthur Foundation | Genius Grant | Won |
References
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- Mbonu-Amadi, Osa (15 October 2022). "How Chimamanda quietly rejected Buhari's award". Vanguard News. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- Edoro, Ainehi (19 May 2016). "Adichie Just Got Herself a Johns Hopkins University Honorary Degree". Brittle Paper. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- "Acclaimed Nigerian Author Chimamanda Receives Honorary Degree". allAfrica.com. 30 August 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- "Chimamanda Adichie bags another degree". Vanguard News. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- "Chimamanda Adichie Honoured By Yale University". 102.3 Max FM. 11 June 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- "Chimamanda addresses University of Pennsylvania's graduating class of 2020". Vanguard News. 20 May 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- "Chimamanda to Receive 16th Honorary Ph.D From Belgium University". News Central TV. 22 March 2022. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- "UJ, Faculty of Humanities confers honorary doctorate to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie". University of Johannesburg News. 26 July 2024. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- Oyemolade, Eniola Eniola (29 October 2022). "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie receives highest honour of Harvard University, W.E.B Du Bois Medal". Tribune Online. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- "The Future Awards category spotlight: Young Person of the Year". YNaija. 4 July 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- Irvine, Lindesay (24 September 2008). "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wins a MacArthur foundation 'genius grant'". the Guardian. Retrieved 16 January 2025.