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