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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Novelist and essayist

Nigeria · b. 1977

Nigerian novelist and essayist, author of Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele. She began a medical degree in Nigeria before leaving to study in the United States.

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In the last five years, what have you become better at saying no to?

To get this prize, I was required to talk about how important a particular European feminist woman writer had been to me. Now the truth was that I had never managed to finish this feminist writer’s book. It did not speak to me. It would have been a lie to claim that she had any major influence on my thinking. […] I could have said that this woman was important to me, and I could have talked the talk, and I could have been given the prize and a shiny present. But I didn’t.

Recorded Wellesley College 137th Commencement, 29 May 2015 source

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