Renowned Nigeria Novel writer Chimamanda Adichie, has been awarded the
2013 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for fiction. This is the third
novel that Nigerian writer will published which title ”AMERICANAH”.
According
to Elizabeth Taylor, the literary editor of the Chicago Tribune, the
prize is awarded yearly in two categories, fiction and non-fiction, to
books that are concerned with American issues, causes and concerns.
“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,”
Taylor wrote.
“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.”
Past fiction winners of the Heartland
Prize include Jonathan France for his novel FREEDOM and Marilyn ne
Robinson for her novel GILEAD
The prize will be awarded on
November 3, 2013 at an audience-attended event hosted in partnership
with the Chicago Humanities Festival in Chicago.
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