{"id":4909,"date":"2013-02-07T17:09:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T22:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/college.web.unc.edu\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2024-07-02T14:19:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:19:21","slug":"chimimanda-ngozi-adichie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=4909","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning Author Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie Speaks Feb. 26"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie. Photo by Beowulf Sheehan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Critically acclaimed author Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie will participate in a forum on the relationship between literature and human rights on Tuesday, February 26 at 5:30 p.m. in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium at the\u00a0FedEx Global Education Center<\/a>\u00a0at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n

Adichie has been described by the Times Literary Supplement as the most prominent of young authors \u201csucceeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her work includes poetry, short fiction and novels that have earned numerous awards. Her first novel, \u201cPurple Hibiscus<\/a>,\u201d won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize and the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award. It was also long-listed for the Booker Prize. Her second book, \u201cHalf of a Yellow Sun<\/a>,\u201d which re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history-Biafra’s impassioned secessionist struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria and the chilling violence that followed-was awarded the Orange Prize.<\/p>\n

Born in Nigeria, Adichie graduated summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State, and received a master’s degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University and a master’s degree in African studies from Yale. Her Nigerian background sets the stage for her work, which explores the pressures of history and society on ethics and human identity. She has noted her writing honors \u201cthe collective memory of an entire nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adichie’s fiction is characterized by a courage and ambition to grapple with critical issues of race and identity, the nationalisms and ethnic ties that lead us to war, the global forces producing violence and the fight between old-age colonialism and the new world. She weaves characters of different races and classes together in the sweep of history.<\/p>\n

The event is co-sponsored by the\u00a0Curriculum in Global Studies<\/a>, the\u00a0Department of African and Afro-American Studies<\/a>, the\u00a0Department of Geography<\/a>, the\u00a0African Studies Center<\/a>, the\u00a0College of Arts and Sciences<\/a>, the\u00a0Global Education Fund<\/a>, the\u00a0Center for Global Initiatives<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Institute for the Arts and Humanities<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Critically acclaimed author Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie will participate in a forum on the relationship between literature and human rights on Tuesday, February 26 at 5:30 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