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List of works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer who won the 2007 Women's Prize for Fiction.[2] She is best known for her novels, poems, and short stories, which are often set in Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria, where she was raised.[3]

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is widely considered the 21st century daughter of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, and one of the most esteemed writers of Postcolonial feminist literature.[1]

By 13, Adichie had started analysing her father's stories including the ones about Biafra. At 20, she made her debut as a published writer with the poetry collection "Decisions", published in 1997, followed by a play, For the Love of Biafra in 1998.[4] She gained critical recognition with the release of her first novel Purple Hibiscus, published in the United States on 30 October 2003 by Algonquin Books.[5] It took Adichie four years to research and write her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun.[6]

Adichie is a prolific short story writer, and a dozen of her short stories were collected in her book, The Thing Around Your Neck, published in 2009.[7][8] She has also written several essays on topics ranging from postcolonialism to feminism,[9] and has earned many accolades for her works including National Book Critics Circle Award,[10] MacArthur Fellowship,[11] and induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[12]

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  • For Love of Biafra (1998). Ibadan: Spectrum Books ISBN 9789780290320

Novels

Poetry collection

Poems

  • "Sheer Beauty". Prime People
  • "We dream" (September 1998). Poetry, pp. 3–9
  • "Visiting Nigeria" (June 2001). Poetry
  • "My Grandmother's Funeral" (2001). Allegheny Review, pp. 42–43

Book-length essays

Children's book

Short story collection

Short Stories (E-book format)

Short story (edited)

Short stories in Journals and Anthologies

  • "You in America" (2001). Zoetrope: All-Story
  • "The Scarf" (2002). Wasafiri, pp. 26–30
  • "The American Embassy" (2002). Prism International, pp. 22–29
  • "Half of a Yellow Sun" (2002). Literary Potpourri; published in 2003 in Zoetrope: All-Story, pp. 10–17; published in 2004 in The Best American Nonrequired Reading edited by Dave Eggers, pp. 1–17; published in French as "Pâle était le soleil" (15 July 2004). Courrier International; published in Italian as "Half of a Yellow Sun" (30 December 2004). Internazionale
  • "My Mother, the Crazy African". In Posse Review: Multi-Ethnic Anthology; published in One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories (2009) by Chris Brazier, pp. 53–60
  • "New Husband" (2003). The Iowa Review, pp. 53–66; published in The Thing around Your Neck (2009), pp. 22–42
  • "Women Here Drive Buses" in Proverbs for the People: Contemporary African-American Fiction edited by Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, pp. 1–7
  • "Light Skin" (2003). Calyx Press, pp. 49–63
  • "Transition to Glory" (30 September 2003). One Story; published in African Love Stories: An Anthology (2006) edited by Ama Ata Aidoo, pp. 34–49; published in All the Good Things around Us: An Anthology of African Short Stories (2016) edited by Ivor Agyeman-Duah
  • "Lagos, Lagos" in Discovering Home: A selection of writings from the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing (2003), pp. 76–86
  • "The Thing around Your Neck" (2004). Prospect, pp. 64–68
  • "You in America" (revised); published in This Is Not Chick Lit (2006) by Elizabeth Merrick, pp. 3–13; published in 2006 in Ms, pp. 64–70; published in The Thing around Your Neck (2009), pp. 115–127
  • "Recaptured Spirits" (2004). Notre Dame Review, pp. 47–58
  • "A Private Experience" (2004). Virginia Quarterly Review, pp. 170–179
  • "The Scarf" (28 December 2008). The Observer (revised), pp. 18; published in The Thing around Your Neck (2009), pp. 43–56; published in An African Quilt: 24 Modern African Stories (2013) by Barbara H. Solomon and W. Reginald Rampone Jr., pp. 27–39
  • "The Grief of Strangers" (2004). Granta, pp. 65–81
  • "Ghosts" (2004). Zoetrope: All Story, pp. 38–43; published in The Thing around Your Neck (2009), pp. 57–73
  • "Do Butterflies Eat Ashes?" (2005). Fiction, pp. 3–17
  • "The Master" (2005). Granta, pp. 17–41
  • "Tomorrow is Too Far" (2006). Prospect, pp. 56–63; published in The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), pp. 187–197
  • "The Time Story" (2006). Per Contra
  • "Jumping Monkey Hill" (2006). Granta, pp. 161–176; published in The Thing around Your Neck (2009), pp. 95–114; published in The High Flier and Other Stories (2011) edited by Jairus Omuteche
  • "Cell One" (29 January 2007). The New Yorker, pp. 72–77; published in Best African American Fiction: 2009 (2009) edited by Gerald Early and E. Lynn Harris, pp. 61–73; published in The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), pp. 3–21
  • "On Monday Last Week" (2007). Granta, pp. 31–48; published as "On Monday of Last Week" in The Thing around Your Neck (2009), pp. 74–94
  • "My American Jon" (27 August 2007) in Binyavanga Wainaina: Me, My Writing and African Writers; published in Conjunctions (2007), pp. 231–240; published in 2009 in The Mechanics' Institute Review, pp. 27–37; published in African Sexualities: A Reader (2011) edited by Sylvia Tamale, pp. 288–294
  • "A Tampered Destiny" (29 December 2007). Financial Times
  • "Emeka" in Four Letter Word: New Love Letters (2007) edited by Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter
  • "Hair" (10 November 2007). The Guardian; published in Ms in 2008, pp. 66–70
  • "The Headstrong Historian" (23 June 2008). The New Yorker, pp. 68–75; published in The PEN/O. Henry Prize stories 2010 (2010) edited by Laura Furman; published in The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), pp. 198–218; published in Best African American fiction 2010 (2010) edited by Gerald Early and Nikki Giovanni, pp. 27–41; published in Who Knows Tomorrow edited by Udo Kittelmann [de], Chika Okeke-Agulu and Britta Schmit; published in The Norton Anthology of World Literature (2018) edited by Martin Puchner
  • "Chinasa" (27 January 2009). The Guardian; published in New Internationalist on 1 July 2009
  • "Do" in Anonthology (2009)
  • "Sola" (30 August 2009). Sunday Times, pp. 60; published in Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2009)
  • "Quality Street" (1 February 2010). Guernica; published in New Statesman from 5–18 April 2010, pp. 36–39
  • "Ceiling" (2010). Granta, pp. 65–80
  • "Birdsong" (20 September 2010). The New Yorker, pp. 96–103; published in 20 Under 40: Stories (2010) edited by Deborah Treisman, pp. 1–19; published in Literature: A Portable Anthology edited by Janet Gardner, pp. 434–445
  • "The Arrangers of Marriage" in The Granta Book of the African Short Story (2011) edited by Helon Habila, pp. 1–17
  • "New Husband" (revised) in The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), pp. 167–186
  • "Checking Out" (18 March 2013). The New Yorker, pp. 66–73
  • "Ofodile" (21 December 2013). The Guardian, pp. 46
  • "The miraculous deliverance of Oga Jona" (18 July 2014). Scoop
  • "The Shivering" in Africa: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara (2014) edited by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey; published in The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), pp. 142–166
  • "Olikoye" (2015). Matter
  • "Apollo" (13 April 2015). The New Yorker, pp. 64–69
  • "The Arrangements" (3 July 2016). The New York Times
  • "How Did You Feel About It?" (2017). Harper's Bazaar
  • "Details" (2017). McSweeney's Quarterly, pp. 23–28
  • "Janelle Asked to the Bedroom" (20 October 2017). The New York Times; published in Camouflage: Best of Contemporary Writing from Nigeria (2021) edited by Nduka Otiono and Diego Odoh Okenyodo
  • "Chuka" (14–24 February 2025). The New Yorker

Adaptations

Essays published in Newspapers, Journals and Magazines

  • "Heart is where the Home was" (2003). Topic Magazine
  • "Chasing American" (21 September 2004). Farafina
  • "On sex, we are just buffoons: my response" (15 August 2004). Vanguard
  • "The Line of No Return" (29 November 2004). The New York Times, p. A21; published as "The line of no return at the embassy" (30 November 2004). International Herald Tribune, p. 6
  • "Chasing American" (revised)
  • "Nsukka in the eyes of a novelist" (3 January 2005). The Guardian; published in the P.S. section of Harper Perennial edition of Purple Hibiscus (2005), pp. 9-14
  • "Blinded by God's business" (19 February 2005). The Guardian
  • "Diary" (4 July 2005). New Statesman, p. 10
  • "Blissful Sloth" (2005). Johns Hopkins Magazine
  • "A Nigerian Book Tour in Australia" (2006). Farafina (print edition), pp. 3-5
  • "Life During Wartime: Sierra Leone, 1997" (12 June 2006). The New Yorker, pp. 72-73
  • "Buildings fall down, pensions aren't paid, politicians are murdered, riots are in the air ... and yet I love Nigeria" (8 August 2006). The Guardian, p. 5
  • "The little boy who talked of magic" (19 August 2006). Times
  • "Truth and Lies" (16 September 2006). The Guardian, p. 22
  • "My college roommate expected me to be a she-Tarzan" (2006). Jane, pp. 126-127
  • "Our Africa Lenses" (13 November 2006). The Washington Post, p. A21; published as "Adopting Africans not the answer" (14 November 2006). Newsday, p. A51; published in a shorter version as "My Africa lens clearly sees charity in sharp relief" (19 November 2006). St Petersburg Times, p. 1
  • "In the Shadow of Biafra" in the P.S. section of the Harper Perennial edition of Half of a Yellow Sun (2007), pp. 9-12
  • "Shall I Live, Or Shall I Blog-Blah-Blah?" (1 April 2007). XHartford Courant
  • "An der Klimafront: Schwarze Weihnachten" (11 April 2007). Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  • "The exemplary chronicler of an African tragedy" (13 June 2007). The Guardian
  • "The Writing Life" (17 June 2007). The Washington Post, p. BW11
  • "Kitchen Talk: Peppers" (2007). Brick, pp. 49-52
  • "Real Food" (10 September 2007). The New Yorker, p. 92; published in Best African American Essays: 2009 (2009) edited by Debra J. Dickerson and Gerald Early, pp. 20-22
  • "Operation" (2007). Granta, pp. 31-37; published as "To My One Love" (March-April 2008). Utne Reader, pp. 84-86
  • "An African Education in No Sweetness Here" (18 January 2008). NPR
  • "Sex in the City" (2 February 2008). The Guardian, p. 3
  • "Guest Editor's Note" (March-April 2008). Farafina, p. 3
  • "Nigeria's immorality is about hypocrisy, not miniskirts" (2 April 2008). The Guardian, p. 32; published in Hindu on 4 April 2008, p. 11; published in Leadership on 7 April 2008; published as "In Nigeria, miniskirts are a maximum issue" (4 April 2008). The Age
  • "The Color of an Awkward Conversation" (8 June 2008). The Washington Post, p. B07; published as "The color of an awkward conversation about race" (15 June 2008). Dallas Morning News; published in Black in America: A Broadview Topics Reader (2018) edited by Jessica Edwards
  • "As a child, I thought my father invincible. I also thought him remote" (15 June 2008). The Observer
  • "African Authenticity and the Biafran Experience" (2008). Transition, pp. 42-53
  • "Strangely Personal" (2008). PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers, pp. 34-37; also published in Essay in Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta, photographs by Ed Kashi (2008) edited by Michael Watts
  • "Diary: The writer of Half of a Yellow Sun on the sour mood in Lagos, a reborn US and juicy plums" (28 March 2009). Times, p. 2; published as "Diary: the writer of Half a Yellow Sun on the joys of water for non-swimmers" (28 March 2009). Times
  • "Diary" (11 July 2009). Financial Times, p. 2
  • "My hero: Muhtar Bakare" (19 September 2009). The Guardian, p. 5
  • "The Police, Our Friends" (30 September 2009). NEXT
  • "Why do South Africans hate Nigerians?" (5 October 2009). The Guardian, p. 2
  • "Father Chinedu" (2009). PEN America, pp. 91-93
  • "Everywhere, moisture is greedily sucked up" (18 December 2009). The Guardian, p. 25; published as "The man who rediscovered Africa" (24 January 2010). Salon.com; published in Introduction to Africa: The Future of Football (2010) by Páll Stefánsson
  • "What I see in the mirror" (23 January 2010). The Guardian Weekend, p. 43
  • "Letter from Lagos" (2010). McSweeney's Quarterly, p. 1
  • "Blood, oil and the banality of greed" (4 April 2010). NEXT
  • "A new Nigerian-ness is infusing the nation" (10 May 2010). Globe and Mail, p. A17
  • "My favourite dress" (8 June 2010). The Guardian, p. 7
  • "World Cup 2010: Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Cameroon and South Africa - my boys" (11 June 2010). The Guardian, p. 2; published in Swedish as "Vägen till det stora målet" (17 June 2010)
  • "Rereading: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee" (10 July 2010). The Guardian, p. 4; published as "Exposing America's social fault lines" (18 July 2010). Sunday Star-Times, p. 7
  • "The Role of Literature in Modern Africa" (2010). New African, p. 96
  • "A Street of Puzzles" (5 December 2010). The New York Times, p. WK9; published as "Windows on the World" (26 December 2010). The Observer; published in Windows on the World: 50 Writers, 50 Views (2014) with illustrations by Matteo Pericoli, pp. 16-18
  • "Women of the Decade" (10 December 2010). Financial Times
  • "A Nigerian revolution" (17 March 2011). The Guardian, p. 38
  • "The Year's Biggest "He Said, She Said" (26 December 2011 - 2 January 2012). Newsweek, pp. 42-43; published as "DSK Vs. The Maid: Who Would the Jury Have Believed?" (19 December 2011). Daily Beast
  • "No More Superpower?" (24 June 2011). The New York Times
  • "Why Are You Here?" (15 January 2012). Guernica
  • "A Country's Frustration, Fueled Overnight" (17 January 2012). The New York Times, p. A23
  • "To Instruct and Delight: A Case For Realist Literature" (15 March 2012). Commonwealth Foundation
  • "My Uncle Mai" (19 May 2012). Financial Times, p. 26
  • "Things Left Unsaid: review of There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe (2012). London Review of Books, pp. 32-33
  • "Chinua Achebe at 82: We Remember Differently" (23 November 2012). Premium Times; published in Chinua Achebe: Tributes and Reflections (2014) edited by Nana Ayebia Clarke and James Currey, pp. 90-96; published as "Awo Versus Achebe - We Remember Differently" (24 November 2012). Vanguard
  • "Facts are stranger than fiction" (20 April 2013). The Guardian, p. 15; published as "Truth is no stranger to fiction" (10 May 2013). Mail & Guardian
  • "The baby who never made it to Atlanta" (8 December 2013). The New York Times, p. SR9; published as "A flight diversion" (6 December 2013). The New York Times
  • "We have lost a star" (19 January 2014). Premium Times
  • "Why can't he just be like everyone else?" (18 February 2014). The Scoop; published in NewsWireNGR on 19 February 2014 and Daily Times on 19 February 2014
  • "Why can't a smart woman love fashion?" (20 February 2014). Elle
  • "Hiding From Our Past" (1 May 2014). The New Yorker
  • "The President I Want" (4 May 2014). Scoop
  • "Nigeria's brutal past haunts the present" (31 May 2014). The Telegraph
  • "I decided to call myself a Happy Feminist" (18 October 2014). The Guardian , p. 2
  • "Lights out in Nigeria" (1 February 2015). The New York Times, p. SR4
  • "Democracy, Deferred" (10 February 2015). Atlantic
  • "On The Oba Of Lagos" (10 April 2015). Olisa.tv
  • "Raised Catholic" (14 October 2015). Atlantic
  • "Why Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Considers Her Sister a Firm Cushion at Her Back" (2016). Vanity Fair
  • "Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions" (12 October 2016). Facebook
  • "To the First Lady, With Love" (17 October 2016). The New York Times Style Magazine
  • "Nigeria's Failed Promises" (19 October 2016). The New York Times, p. A14
  • "What Hillary Clinton's Fans Love About Her" (3 November 2016). Atlantic
  • "Now Is the Time to Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About" (2 December 2016). The New Yorker
  • "Rereading Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich" (1 August 2017). The New Yorker
  • "Thank you for your patience" (2017). McSweeney's Quarterly
  • "My Fashion Nationalism" (20 October 2017). Financial Times
  • "Two Stories on Malaria" (25 April 2018). Evening Standard
  • "The Carnage of the Cameroons" (16 September 2018). The New York Times, p. SR10
  • "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie On Her Most Cherished Childhood Memories" (2018). Vogue UK
  • "Is There Anything Else I Can Help You with Today?" (28 January 2019). Paris Review
  • "Still Becoming: At Home in Lagos with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie" (29 April 2019). Esquire; published in Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian Writers on the Home, Identity, and Culture They Know (2021), pp. 61-71
  • "Shut Up and Write" (11-17 January 2019). New Statesman, pp. 38-43
  • "Lean on me" (5 April 2020). Facebook
  • "A prizewinning novelist, a bad concussion and loss of memory during the coronavirus pandemic" (7 August 2020). Washington Post
  • "Notes on Grief" (10 September 2020). The New Yorker
  • "The address President Buhari could have given" (23 October 2020). The Guardian (Nigeria)
  • "Nigeria is murdering its citizens" (25 October 2020). The New York Times , p. 2
  • "Legacy of Hope: review of A Promised Land by Barack Obama" (29 November 2020). The New York Times , p. 1
  • "Dreaming As a Single Family: A Reflection on the Holy Father's Encyclicals" (9 July 2021). L'Osservatore Romano , p. 8; published in Italian as "Sognare come un'unica umanità"
  • "Why "Literary Lion Wole Soyinka Is My Inspiration" (26 September 2021). Times
  • "What hat das Recht, den anderen auszustellen?" (29 September 2021). Zeit, p. 57
  • "I Have Never Been So Proud of My Fellow Nigerians" (28 February 2023). The New York Times
  • "My Country Is in a Fragile Place" (28 February 2023). The New York Times; published on 9 March 2023 by Time Africa
  • "Nigeria's Hollow Democracy" (6 April 2023). Atlantic
  • "How I Became Black in America" (12 May 2023). Atlantic
  • "Preface to Pope Francis" (2023). Hands off Africa! (Vatican: Vatican Publishing House)
  • "The Story of My First Love" (13 February 2025). Vogue

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