Award wining Nigerian Author and renowned writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has become the first Nigerian to be awarded the Mary McCarthy Prize.
The Mary McCarthy Prize in short fiction includes a cash award, publication of a collection of short stories, standard royalty contract and a short novel or novella.
See letter from the McCarthy Prize:
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She attended the Mary McCarthy Prize in Bard College as a special guest.
Chimamanda’s first novel Purple Hibiscus published in 2003 won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and has been translated to over 30 languages.
Her second novel Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) won the Bailey’s Women’s Prize which is the world’s top prize for female writers.