Adichie won the sum of 30,000 pounds prize gift for the Best
of the Best award.
This is not the first time Adichie will be winning this award.
In 2007, she won it for her second novel, set during the
Biafran War of the 1960s.
Other winners of the Baileys Prize from the last decade
include Zadie Smith for On Beauty, Rose Tremain for The
Road Home and Eimear McBride for A Girl is a Half-formed
Thing.
Adichie’s novel was chosen by the chairs of the judging
panels from the last 10 years.
Responding to her winning the award, Adicihie said
I am grateful and happy. This is a prize I have a lot of respect
and admiration for.”
Fiction] brought wonderful literature to a wide readership that
might not have found many of the books.
“I have a lot of respect for the books that have won in the past
10 years and also for the books that have been shortlisted – I
feel I am in very good company.”
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