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Sunday December 6 2020, 7pm

Women's Prize Live with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'Winner of Winners'

Intelligence Squared is delighted to be supporting the Women’s Prize Trust who are hosting a special event with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ‘Winner of Winners’ of 25 years of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, chaired by Kate Mosse, Prize Founder Director.

Chimamanda has just been voted the Women’s Prize for Fiction’s ‘Winner of Winners’ for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun in a public vote to celebrate 25 years of the Prize. In this event she will discuss her writing process, inspirations and career live from Lagos, Nigeria. The evening will also feature a behind-the-scenes film of Chimamanda in her Lagos home. In addition, a well-known actor (to be revealed) will perform a reading from Chimamanda’s winning book Half of a Yellow Sun.

You will also have the opportunity to ask questions in a live audience Q&A session.

Don’t miss the chance to join us for this very special evening – the final event in the Women’s Prize Trust 25th anniversary year of #ReadingWomen.

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Women's Prize Live with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'Winner of Winners'

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Speaker

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Award-winning Nigerian-born novelist

Chair

  • Kate Mosse

    Award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer, whose latest book is Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World

Speakers are subject to change.

Location
  • Online event
Time
  • Sunday 6 December 2020
  • 7pm to 8pm

Speakers

Speaker

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Award-winning Nigerian-born novelist

Award-winning Nigerian-born novelist. Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in numerous publications. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2007 (then the Orange Prize) and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book, and a People and Black Issues Book Review Best Book of the Year; and the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck, which was published to critical acclaim in 2009. Her latest novel ,Americanah, was published in 2013 and has received numerous accolades, including winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction. It was named one of The New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year. A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
Chair

Kate Mosse

Award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer, whose latest book is Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World

Award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer. She has written nine novels and short-story collections, including the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy, The Joubert Family Chronicles, number one bestselling Gothic fiction The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist’s Daughter and the highly-acclaimed memoir An Extra Pair of Hands. She is the Founder-Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the Founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign. Her latest book, part detective story, part family history and part dictionary of 1000 women missing from history is Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World. She is currently preparing a theatre tour for Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries for spring 2023 and working on the third novel in The Joubert Family Chronicles, a historical crime thriller set in 17th century France, Tenerife and South Africa for publication in July 2023.

Speakers are subject to change.