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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Attn: Roman F. Christiaens Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Speaking at UVM on Monday, October 27th @ Davis Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 10:50:28 -0400 From: Tilza Buschner <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] CC: Tilza Buschner <[log in to unmask]> Chimamand Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria. Her most recent novel Americanah was named one of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the year and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her novel Half of a Yellow Sun won the Orange Prize, and her novel Purple Hibiscus won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. The Thing Around Your Neck, her collection of stories, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book in Africa. The recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, she was named one of the twenty most important fiction writers today under 40 years old by The New Yorker. Helen Scott Associate Professor Director of Buckham Overseas Study Program Department of English Old Mill 433 University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05405