Ngozi Adichie scoops Orange Prize for Fiction
Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been named winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Adichie’s novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, is her second book and set during the Biafran War in the 1960s. The new writer’s award worth £10,000 was presented to Canada’s Karen Connelly for her novel The Lizard Cage.
