The New Yorker Festival: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks with David Remnick SOLD OUT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her novels include “Purple Hibiscus,” which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book; “Half of a Yellow Sun,” which won the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction; and “Americanah,” which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has also published a story collection, “The Thing Around Your Neck,” parts of which originally ran in The New Yorker. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008, and her work has been translated into more than thirty languages.