Nigerian novelist\u00a0Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie<\/a>\u00a0has been awarded the 2018 PEN Pinter prize. She was hailed by Harold Pinter\u2019s widow, the biographer Antonia Fraser, as a writer who embodies \u201cthose qualities of courage and outspokenness which Harold much admired\u201d.<\/p>\n

An award-winning novelist \u2013 her 2004 debut Purple Hibiscus won the Commonwealth writers\u2019 prize, Half of a Yellow Sun won her the Orange prize in 2006, and\u00a0Americanah took the US National Book Critics Circle award in 2014<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Adichie is also known for her TED talks and essays. Her most recent book is\u00a0Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions<\/a>, which began as advice for a friend about how to raise her daughter as a feminist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nigerian novelist\u00a0Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u00a0has been awarded the 2018 PEN Pinter prize. She was hailed by Harold Pinter\u2019s widow, the biographer Antonia Fraser, as a writer who embodies \u201cthose qualities of courage and outspokenness which Harold much admired\u201d. An award-winning novelist \u2013 her 2004 debut Purple Hibiscus won the Commonwealth writers\u2019 prize, Half of a Yellow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}