Chimamanda Adichie Named ‘Winner of Winners’ as Her Book ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ Receives Women’s Prize for Fiction
Nigerian Writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, tops her preexisting list of achievements yet again, as her book has publicly been voted the Women’s Prize for fiction 2020. This prize and recognition is for her novel titled ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ which was originally published in 2006. She’s been voted in as the best of the Women’s Prize’s winners in 25years.
The recognition, which was awarded the tag ‘winner of winners’, celebrates the 25-years culmination of the United Kingdom organization, expounding on its celebration of service and adept relevance to the world of literature.
Chimamanda received this award amongst other outstanding authors including Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, Lionel Shriver, Rose Tremain, and Maggie O’Farrell, and several others.
The Women’s Prize for fiction as an organization under the United Kingdom has hosted numerous programs, awards, and literary events for the past 25 years.
This year, to mark its 25th anniversary, the women’s prize for fiction used a public voting system to name the winner of this year’s 25th-anniversary celebration, by engaging its audience to read through the 25 selected works following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
It might be useful to note that, on the 27th of October Chimamanda Adichie only just released an Amazon Original Short Story titled Zikora.
This in itself appeared as a blissful surprise to the reading community and fans all over the world. Chimamanda Adichie who is internationally acclaimed for her writing and speech prowess just released something new after her last novel Americanah.
Following the reactions that emerged from this announcement on the 12th of November 2020, womensprize took to their official Instagram handle to share a video where Chimamanda Adichie expressed her gratitude for the opportunity to be pushed out into a wider audience.
Her words in the video were:
“I’m really really pleased about being the Winner of Winners for a number of reasons. The first is that this is a prize that I really respect because I think this is a prize that has consistently brought very good literature to the forefront and has introduced really good books that might not have received the kind of recognition if not for this prize.
So, to be the winner of Winners is such really, it’s clichéd to say it’s such an honor,”
Going to her Instagram page, following the release of the news, she expressed her gratitude to her fans and followers, officially confirming the news of her recognition as winners of winners’ 25 years of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
On her Instagram page, she informed everyone :
“I’m especially moved to be voted Winner of Winners because this is the prize that first brought a wide readership to my work, and has also introduced me to the work of many talented writers”, Adichie said.
Following Adichie’s recognition as ‘Winner of Winners’, she will receive the prize’s annual statuette, popularly called the ‘Bessie’. A masterpiece originally created by the artist Grizel Niven, and a Grand Prize of £30,000. The event shall be held online on the 6th of Dec, 2020.
The Women’s Prize for Fiction is an annual award best given to the best English full-length novel published in the UK.
The women’s prize is an offshoot of the reading women campaign. A movement aimed at recruiting and introducing readers to a diversified outlook of women’s writing, while championing originality, and excellence.
Kate Misse, director and founder of Women’s Prize gladly spelled out the objective of the Women’s prize movement, saying:
“Our aim has always been to promote and celebrate the classics of tomorrow today and to build a library of exceptional, diverse, outstanding international fiction written by women… I am thrilled that Half of a Yellow Sun has won the silver Winner of Winner”
Adichie was voted publicly, and emerged winner from a total of 25 authors selected across the world.
Making a second win as she had once received, in 2006, the popularly acclaimed Orange Prize, for the same book. Women’s prize had formerly been called the Orange Prize, Bailey’s Prize, and now, the Women’s Prize.
From all indicators, even the year 2020, appears to have too much good in store for Chimamanda Adichie. It is with joy we celebrate an African woman who is gradually debunking and changing the stereotype, one step at a time.
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