Orange Award for New Writers 2008
Launched in 2005 in partnership with Arts Council England, the Orange Award for New Writers celebrated emerging female literary talent. All first works of fiction, including novels, short story collections and novellas, written by women of any age or nationality and published as a book in the UK were eligible to enter.The award closed in 2010.
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Winner
Half of a Yellow Sun
Harper PerennialHalf of a Yellow Sun is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of the vicious Nigeria- Biafra war in which more than a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Winner, Orange Award for New Writers
Half of a Yellow Sun is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of the vicious Nigeria- Biafra war in which more than a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieChimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria. She studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria then moved to the US to study communications and political science at Eastern Connecticut State University. She gained an MA in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. After initially writing poetry and one play, For Love of Biafra (1998), she had several short stories published in literary journals, winning various competition prizes. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, won the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book), and was shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her second novel is Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), set before and during the Biafran War. It won the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.
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