June 6th 2007

Author Adichie wins Orange Prize

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been named winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.

She beat five other contenders for the £30,000 women-only award, including Kiran Desai, shortlisted for her Booker Prize winner The Inheritance of Loss.

Adichie’s novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, is her second work and set during the Biafran War of the 1960s.

The new writer’s award worth £10,000 was presented to Karen Connelly for her novel The Lizard Cage.

Source: BBC

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