Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Chimamanda Adichie (2009)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born September 15, 1977 in Enugu ) is a Nigerian writer who now lives partly in Nigeria, partly in the USA and writes in English. Her work has received numerous international awards and is considered an outstanding example of young African literature.

Life

Adichie's mother tongue is Igbo and her family comes from Abba in the Nigerian state of Anambra . Her father was a math professor. She was born the fifth of six children and grew up in the university town of Nsukka in a house that was once inhabited by Chinua Achebe . After graduating from high school, she began studying medicine and pharmacy in Nigeria. At the age of 19 she moved to the USA to study. In 2001 she completed a degree in communication and political science summa cum laude . From 2005 to 2006 Adichie was a "Hodder Fellow" at Princeton University , and in 2008 she received a Masters degree in African Studies from Yale University . She is married and has a daughter.

Adichie's novels have been translated into several languages, including German, Spanish, and Dutch. In November 2014, she wrote in the FAS about the feelings she felt when listening to the music of the Nigerian Fela Kuti . In the TED talk The danger of a single story , Adichie deals with the dangers of one-sided stories and modes of representation. She explains that narrowing the perspective to just one of many possible stories about people, groups or places creates stereotypes and clichés. For example, the image of Africa in the western industrialized countries is distorted and shows almost only negative sides. In her lecture she combines her own experiences with questions of global power relations and modes of representation.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a feminist. In 2012 she published the book We should All be Feminists and speaks in lectures about feminism such as B. in her TEDxtalk We should all be feminists . The following sentence by Adichie was sampled by Beyoncé for her track *** Flawless : "Feminist: A person who believes in the political, social and economic equality of the sexes."

In 2017 Adichie was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . She has earned several honorary doctorates, including a. 2016 from Johns Hopkins University , 2017 from University of Edinburgh , and 2019 from University of Friborg (Switzerland) . In 2019 she was included in the anthology New Daughters of Africa , in which Margaret Busby brought together the most important black women authors of the last two centuries.

Works

  • 1998 For Love of Biafra (Drama)
  • 1998 Decisions (poems)
  • 2001 You in America (short story)
  • 2003 Purple Hibiscus (novel)
  • 2002 Half of a Yellow Sun (short story)
  • 2004 The Thing Around your Neck (short story)
  • 2006 Half of a Yellow Sun (novel)
  • 2006 Tomorrow is Too Far (short story)
  • 2006 Life During Wartime: Sierra Leone, 1997 (Report, in: The New Yorker , June 12, 2006)
  • 2006 Buildings Fall Down, Pensions Aren't Paid, Politicians are Murdered, Riots are in the Air ... and yet I love Nigeria (article, in: The Guardian , August 8, 2006)
  • 2009 The Thing Around Your Neck (collection of short stories)
  • 2012 We should All be Feminists , Vintage Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-0-00-811527-2
  • 2013 Americanah . Novel. Doubleday button ISBN 978-0-307-96212-6
  • Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions . Alfred A.Knopf, New York 2017 ISBN 978-1-5247-3313-1
    • Translator Anette Grube: "Dear Ijeawele!" How our daughters become self-determined women. Fischer TB, Frankfurt 2017

Awards

Web links

Commons : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Copnall, James (2011), "Steak Knife", The Times Literary Supplement , p. 20
  2. ↑ Khuê Phạm : It is difficult. Very Difficult Time magazine , February 5, 2020
  3. ↑ Jan Schapira: "The madness of Boko Haram must stop" , Interview, Die Literäre Welt , May 17, 2014, p. 3
  4. ↑ http://www.l3.ulg.ac.be/adichie/
  5. ↑ http://www.marabout.de/Adichie/Adichie.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.l3.ulg.ac.be/adichie/
  7. ↑ About Fela in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , November 2, 2014, p. 37
  8. ↑ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story. Accessed December 25, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Ted Talk: "The danger of a single story", In: https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=de#t-1106677 , last viewed on February 11, 2018.
  10. ^ Rupert Hawksley: Why we should all be feminists. In: Telegraph, October 31, 2014
  11. ↑ We should all be feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | TEDxEuston, in: TEDx Talks YouTube channel, uploaded on April 12, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Meredith Haaf: “Take a bow!” Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 2, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Honorary Members: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  14. ^ HUB, Johns Hopkins University, April 22, 2016.
  15. ↑ The University of Edinburgh, July 28, 2017.
  16. ↑ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Literature, Power and the Academy, Université de Friborg November 15, 2019
  17. ↑ Université de Friborg, November 15, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Excerpt from WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS. In: Feminist.com, 2014
  19. ↑ http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/jury08.html#adichie
  20. ↑ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wins PEN Pinter Prize , The Irish Times , published and accessed on June 12, 2018.
  21. ↑ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi wins the Hesse Prize
personal data
SURNAME Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th September 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Enugu