Award winning Nigerian author, Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah has lost the chance to be named the winner of the prestigious Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction
U.K. author, Eimear McBride, was announced winner last Wednesday.
Her book A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing piped Adichie’s Americanah.
Ms. McBride’s first novel also topped American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Donna Tartt’s Goldfinch to win the $30,000 (N4.8 million) prize. C
A Girl is a Half-formed Thing “tells the story of a young woman’s relationship with her brother who is living with the after effects of a brain tumor.”
Adichie has previously won awards which include: BBC Short Story Competition (2002), David T. Wong International Short Story Prize (PEN American Center Award) (2003), O. Henry Prize (2003), Hurston-Wright Legacy Award: Best Debut Fiction Category (2004), Commonwealth Writers’ Prize: Best First Book (Africa) (2005), Commonwealth Writers’ Prize: Best First Book (overall) (2005), Anisfield-Wolf Book Award: Fiction category (2007), PEN Beyond Margins Award (2007), Orange Broadband Prize: Fiction category(2007), Reader’s Digest Author of the Year Award (2008), Reader’s Digest Author of the Year Award (2008), International Nonino Prize[ (2008), Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize: Fiction category (2013), National Book Critics Circle Award: Fiction category (2013)