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| Chimamanda Adichie |
Nigerian prolific novel writer, Chimamanda Adichie’s third novel AMERICANAH
will soon receive the 2013 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for fiction.
The author of The Thing Around Your Neck, The Purple Hibiscus and Half
of A Yellow Sun, through her writing prowess would be adding The Heartland
Prize for Fiction.
The prize will be awarded on November 3, 2013 at an audience-attended
event hosted in partnership with the Chicago Humanities Festival
in Chicago.
The prize, according to the
literary editor of the Chicago Tribune, Elizabeth Taylor, is awarded yearly in
two categories, fiction and non-fiction, to books that are concerned with
American issues, causes and concerns.
She said: “We loved AMERICANAH. It’s a powerful, resonant novel and we
would be delighted to celebrate it and try to share it with a wider audience.
I’m very pleased,” Adichie said on receiving news of the prize. “You never know
what will happen when you write a novel. And for me, a Nigerian, to have
written this book which is partly about America, and to receive this
quintessentially American prize means that I have said something about America
as seen through Nigerian eyes that Americans find interesting. I take that as a
wonderful compliment. It reminds me of the ability of literature to make
us become briefly alive in bodies not our own,” she said.
The Heartland Prize is a literary prize created in 1988 by the Chicago
Tribune Newspaper.
Former fiction winners of the Heartland Prize include Jonathan France
for his novel FREEDOM and Marilyn ne Robinson for her novel GILEAD
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