Chimamanda Ngozi ADICHIE [Enugu, 15 September 1977 (Writer)]

http://www.l3.ulg.ac.be/adichie/

2007. HALF OF A YELLOW SUN.

da http://www.l3.ulg.ac.be/adichie/:
Novels
Purple Hibiscus (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2003).
Half of a Yellow Sun (London: Fourth Estate, 2006).
Play
For Love of Biafra (Ibadan: Spectrum Books, 1998).
Collected Poems
Decisions (London: Minerva Press, 1998).
Uncollected Poems
'Sheer Beauty', Prime People, date unknown.
'We dream', Poetry Magazine 3.9, September 1998.
'Visiting Nigeria', Poetry Magazine 6.6, June 2001. Short stories
'You in America', Zoetrope: All-Story Extra 38, Winter 2001. Also published in Discovering Home: A selection of writings from the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing (Bellevue: Jacana, 2003), pp. 27-34.
'The Scarf', Wasafiri 37, Winter 2002, pp. 26-30.
'The American Embassy', Prism International, Spring 2002. Also published in Furman, Laura (ed.), The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 (New York: Anchor Books, 2003), pp. 220-229.
'Half of a Yellow Sun', Literary Potpourri 12, November 2002. Also published in Zoetrope: All-Story 7.2, Summer 2003, pp. 10-17; in Eggers, Dave (ed.), The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004), pp. 1-17; in Chimurenga 5: Head/Body(&Tools)/Corpses, April 2004, and in Otiono, Nduka and Odoh Diego Okenyodo (eds.), Camouflage: Best of Contemporary Writing from Nigeria (Yenagoa: Treasure Books, 2006), pp. 73-86. Published in French as 'Pâle était le soleil' in Courier International 715, 15 July 2004, and in Italian as 'Mezzo sole giallo' in Internazionale 572, 30 December 2004.
'My Mother, the Crazy African', In Posse Review: Multi-Ethnic Anthology. Undated.
'New Husband', Iowa Review 33.1, Spring 2003, pp. 53-66. Also published in Farafina 1 (print edition), October 2005, pp. 9-12, 28-29.
'Imitation', Other Voices 38, Spring/Summer 2003, pp. 143-153.
'Women Here Drive Buses', in Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall (eds.), Proverbs for the People: Contemporary African-American Fiction (New York: Dafina, 2003), pp. 1-7.
'Light Skin', Calyx 21.2, Summer 2003, pp. 49-63.
'Transition to Glory', One Story 27, 30 September 2003. Also published in African Love Stories: An Anthology, ed. by Ama Ata Aidoo (Banbury: Ayebia, 2006), pp. 34-49.
'Lagos, Lagos', in Discovering Home: A selection of writings from the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing (Bellevue: Jacana, 2003), pp. 76-86. Also published in Chimurenga 8: We're all Nigerian!, December 2005.
'The Thing around Your Neck', Prospect 99, June 2004, pp. 64-68. A revised version of 'You in America'. Also published in This Is Not Chick Lit, ed. by Elizabeth Merrick (New York: Random House, 2006), pp. 3-13.
'Recaptured Spirits', Notre Dame Review 18, Summer 2004, pp. 47-58.
'A Private Experience', Virginia Quarterly Review 80.3, Summer 2004, pp. 170-179. A revised version of 'The Scarf'.
'The Grief of Strangers', Granta 88: Mothers, Winter 2004, pp. 65-81.
'Ghosts', Zoetrope: All Story 8.4, Winter 2004, pp. 36-43.
'Do Butterflies Eat Ashes?', Fiction 19.2, 2005, pp. 3-17.
'The Master', Granta 92: The View from Africa, Winter 2005, pp. 17-41. An extract from the forthcoming novel Half of a Yellow Sun.
'Tomorrow is too far', Prospect 118, January 2006.
'The Time Story', Per Contra, Spring 2006.
'Jumping Monkey Hill', Granta 95: Loved Ones, October 2006, pp. 161-176.
'Cell One', New Yorker, 29 January 2007.
'On Monday Last Week', Granta 98: The Deep End, Summer 2007, pp. 31-48.
'My American Jon', Binyavanga Wainaina: Me, My Writing and African Writers, 27 August 2007.
'Hair', Guardian, 10 November 2007. Essays
'Heart is where the Home was', Topic Magazine 3, Winter 2003.
'Chasing American', Farafina 5 (online version), 2004.
'On sex, we are just buffoons: my response', Vanguard (Nigeria), 15 August 2004.
'The Line of No Return', New York Times, 29 November 2004, p. 21. Also published as 'The line of no return at the embassy', International Herald Tribune, 30 November 2004. Revised versions of 'Chasing American'.
'Nsukka in the eyes of a novelist', Guardian (Nigeria), 3 January 2005. 'Tiny Wonders' in Speakeasy Magazine (2003); also published in the P.S. section of the Harper Perennial edition of Purple Hibiscus (London: Harper Perennial, 2005), pp. 9-14.
'Blinded by God's business', Guardian (Nigeria), 19 February 2005.
'Diary', New Statesman, 4 July 2005.
'Blissful Sloth', Johns Hopkins Magazine 57.4 (Special Issue: The Seven Deadly Sins), September 2005.
'A Nigerian Book Tour in Australia', Farafina 4 (print edition), April 2006, pp. 3-5.
'Life During Wartime: Sierra Leone, 1997', New Yorker, 12 June 2006.
'Buildings fall down, pensions aren't paid, politicians are murdered, riots are in the air ... and yet I love Nigeria', Guardian, 8 August 2006.
'The little boy who talked of magic', Times, 19 August 2006. A revised version of 'Life During Wartime: Sierra Leone, 1997'.
'Truth and Lies', Guardian, 16 September 2006.
'Our "Africa" Lenses', Washington Post, 13 November 2006, p. A21. Also published as 'Adopting Africans not the answer', Newsday, 14 November 2006, p. A.51.
'Shall I Live, Or Shall I Blog-Blah-Blah?', Hartford Courant, 1 April 2007.
'An der Klimafront: Schwarze Weihnachten', Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 11 April 2007. In German. The original English version, 'Black Christmas', is also available online.
'The exemplary chronicler of an African tragedy' (on Chinua Achebe), Guardian, 13 June 2007.
'The Writing Life', Washington Post, 17 June 2007, p. BW11.
'Kitchen Talk: Peppers', Brick 79 (Summer 2007), pp. 49-52.
'Real Food', New Yorker, 3-10 September 2007.
'An African Education in No Sweetness Here', NPR, 18 January 2008.
'Sex in the City', Guardian, 2 February 2008. Interviews
Interview with Behlor Santi, Writers Notes Magazine 1, 2004, pp. 65-70.
'On sex, we are just buffoons', ThisDay, 1 August 1004. See also Adichie's reponse to this interview in Vanguard (Nigeria), 15 August 2004.
'Novel approach to Nigeria', Interview with Maria Blackburn, Johns Hopkins Magazine 56.1, February 2004.
'Au Nigéria, la démocratie n'existe pas !', Interview by Pierre Cherruau, Courier International 727, 7 October 2004. In French.
'Off the Shelf', Interview by Inga Gilchrist, MX (Australia), 24 February 2005.
'I left home to find home', Interview with Carl Wilkinson, Observer, 6 March 2005.
'A Brief Conversation with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', in 'Author profile: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', World Literature Today 80.2 (March-April 2006), pp. 5-6.
'New Writing and Nigeria: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Helen Oyeyemi in Conversation', Interview by Aminatta Forna, Wasafiri 21 (March 2006), pp. 50-57. Night Train VI, April 2006. accurate? -->
'Her stories of war are also her stories of family', Interview by Anna Mundow, Boston Globe, 8 October 2006.
'Daughter of Biafra', Interview by Dylan Foley, Star-Ledger, 29 October 2006, p. 6.
'My Book Should Provoke A Conversation - Chimamanda Ngozi', Interview by Wale Adebanwi, News (Nigeria), 9 January 2007.
'Eyes on the Prize', Interview by Davina Morris, Voice, Issue 1270, 22 May 2007.
'How does it feel to be home?', Interview with Ovo Adagha, Vanguard, 12 August 2007.
'Michael Ondaatje and Chimamanda Adichie in conversation', Brick 79 (Summer 2007), pp. 38-48.
'10 Questions with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Interview with A. Igoni Barrett, Farafina 10, September 2007, p. 67.
'Chapter and Verse: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Good Housekeeping, October 2007, p. 74.
'Memory, Witness, and War: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks with Bookforum', Bookforum, December-January 2008. In Translation
L'hibiscus pourpre, translated into French by Mona de Pracontal (Paris: Anne Carrière, 2004).
Paarse Hibiscus, translated into Dutch by Hankie Bauer (Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Sirene, 2004).
Fioletowy hibiskus, translated into Polish by Alicja Skarbinska (Wydawnictwo Amber, 2004).
La flor purpura, translated into Castilian by Laura Rins Calahorra (Barcelona: Grijalbo, 2004).
Blauer Hibiskus, translated into German by Judith Schwaab (Munich: Roman Luchterhand Literaturverlag, 2005).
Kinrozes ziedas, translated into Lithuanian by Regina Seskuviene (Vilnius: Alma littera, 2005).
L'ibisco viola, translated into Italian by Maria Giuseppina Cavallo (Fusi Orari, 2005).
Μενεξεδένιος ιβίσκος (Menexedenios hiviskos), translated into Greek (Athens: Ex Libris, 2005).
Purpurni hibiskus, translated into Serbian by Tatjana Biþiã (Belgrade: Laguna, 2005).
Mor Amber, translated into Turkish by Ali Cevat Akkoyunlu (Istanbul: Doğan Kitap, 2006).
Dyprød Hibiskus, translated into Norwegian by Mona Lange (Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 2006).
Note: Purple Hibiscus has also been translated into Hebrew.
Een halve gele zon, translated into Dutch by Rob van Essen (Amsterdam: Atlas, 2006).
Die Hälfte der Sonne, translated into German by Judith Schwaab (Munich: Roman Luchterhand Literaturverlag, 2007).
En halv gul sol, translated into Swedish by Joakim Sundström (Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Vörlag, 2007).
En halv gul sol, translated into Norwegian by Mona Lange (Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 2007).
En halv gul sol, translated into Danish by Susanne Staun (Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 2007).
Pola žutog sunca, translated into Serbian by Deana Maksimoviã-Vidanoviã (Belgrade: Laguna, 2007).
Miscellaneous
Letter to the Editor, Time, 7 February 2000.
Letter to the Editor, Time, 25 March 2002.
'Hot reads' (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recommends other writers' works), Guardian, 18 June 2005.
'Speaking volumes' (several writers, among whom Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, recommend their favourite books of 2005), Guardian, 26 November 2005.
'The great escape' (several writers, among whom Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, select their best travel reading), Guardian, 23 June 2007.
'Emeka', in Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter (eds.), Four Letter Word: New Love Letters (London: Chatto and Windus, 2007).
'Christmas books past, present and future: Part one' (several writers, among whom Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, select their favourite seasonal reads), Guardian, 24 November 2007.
'That's the best thing we've read all year - part two' (several writers, among whom Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, select their favourite reads of 2007), Guardian, 25 November 2007.

Articles and Essays
Hewett, Heather, 'Coming of age: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the voice of the third generation', English in Africa 32.1 (May 2005).
Highfield, Jonathan, 'Blood and Blossom: Violence and Restoration in Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Vera's The Stone Virgins', International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability 1.2 (2005/2006), pp. 161-168.
Novak, Amy, 'Who Speaks? Who Listens? The Problem of Address in Two Nigerian Trauma Novels' [on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Chris Abani's Graceland], Studies in the Novel 40.1-2 (Spring-Summer 2008, forthcoming). Special Issue on Postcolonial Trauma Novels, ed. by Gert Buelens and Stef Craps.
Ogoke, Ijeoma, 'Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus: A protest novel?', Vanguard, 1 July 2007.
Oha, Anthony C., 'Beyond the Odds of the Red Hibiscus: A Critical Reading of Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus', Journal of Pan African Studies 1.9 (August 2007), pp. 199-211.
Toye, Deji, 'Unmasking the Okonkwo Complex in Purple Hibiscus', Guardian (Nigeria), 24 January 2005. Profiles
Kalu, Uduma, 'Nigerian wins literature prize in the U.S', Guardian (Nigeria), 12 September 2003.
Habich, John, 'Young Nigerian's first novel blazes with insight of new and old religion', Star Tribune, 19 October 2003.
Bolling, Deborah, 'Planting the Seeds', City Paper (Philadelphia), 6 November 2003.
Weeks, Jerome, 'Leaving may lead her home: First novel inspires writer to re-energize Nigerian literature', Dallas Morning News, 4 December 2003.
'Sharing her Gift', Universe 4.1, January-February 2004, pp. 3, 9.
Roberts, Alison, 'My father was horrified!', Evening Standard, 30 April 2004.
Morris, Davina, 'Yinka Sunmonu finds in debut author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie a woman confident of her own ability', Voice, 9 May 2004.
Ogundare, Gbenga, 'Three Nigerian female writers become hot properties on the international literary circuit', News (Lagos), 14 May 2004.
Nwachukwu Mcphilips, 'G-15 hosts Chimamanda Adichie, triggers literary campaign', Vanguard, 8 August 2004.
Atojoko, Salif, 'Adichie's Passion: Writing, More Writing', Newswatch (Nigeria), 13 September 2004.
Sniatecki, Ryan, 'Seeking to Write Universal Truths', Baltimore Chronicle, 9 October 2004.
Washburn, Lindy, 'The family resembled a homeland torn apart', Record (Bergen County, NJ), 12 December 2004.
Garner, Clare, 'Profile of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', in the P.S. section to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus (London: Harper Perennial, 2005), pp. 2-5.
Braunstein, Emily, 'Out of Africa', Salient 4, 2005.
Sibree, Bron, 'The religious divide', Daily Telegraph (Australia), 5 February 2005.
Harvey, Siobhan, 'Purple Hibiscus author lucky by name', Dominion Post, 19 February 2005.
O'Connor, Shaunagh, 'Write of Passage', Herald Sun (Australia), 19 February 2005. Also published as 'Another world', Courier Mail, 26 February 2005.
Steger, Jason,, 'Glorious shock of distinction', Age, 25 February 2005.
Gilchrist David, 'Forgotten lessons threaten future', New Zealand Herald, 2 March 2005.
Keenan, Catherine, 'Ethnic enough', Sydney Morning Herald, 2 April 2005.
Case, Jo, 'A voice from Africa', Big Issue Australia, 7 April 2005.
Eze, James, 'My American fans want to visit Nsukka, Abba after reading Purple Hibiscus', Sunday Sun, 30 October 2005.
'Author profile: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', World Literature Today 80.2 (March-April 2006), pp. 5-6.
Tunca, Daria, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie en Chika Unigwe: stemmen die aandacht verdienen', trans. from the English by Lode Demetter, Rekto:verso: Tweemaandelijks Tijdschrift voor Kunstkritiek 16 (March-April 2006), pp. 18-19. In Dutch.
Patterson, Christina, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Fortunes of war and peace', Independent, 18 August 2006.
'Out of Africa', Irish Times, 26 August 2006.
Peel, Michael, 'Love in the time of war', Financial Times, 9 September 2006.
McGrath, Charles, 'A Nigerian Author Looking Unflinchingly at the Past', New York Times, 23 September 2006. Also published as 'No life away from her books', Age, 8 October 2006.
Thompson, Bob, 'From Pages of Fiction, A Volume of Sad Truth', Washington Post, 27 September 2006, p. C.1. Also published as 'Compassion for Nigeria burns in "Sun"', Contra Costa Times, 8 October 2006.
Walker, Susan, 'Revisiting the bloody trail of civil war', Toronto Star, 22 October 2006, p. C 08.
Kimber, Charles, 'Interview: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Socialist Review, October 2006.
Brune, Adrian, 'A chronicle of war imagined through her novel, writer comes to terms with her nation's deepest conflict', Hartford Courant, 26 November 2006, p. G 3.
Weyler, Svante, 'Svante Weyler om Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Sydsvenskan, 22 December 2006. In Swedish.
Mwazemba, John, 'Chimamanda Ngozi: Salute a rising star', Standard (Kenya), 23 December 2006.
Akubuiro, Henry, 'My love life', Daily Sun (Nigeria), 14 January 2007.
Njoku, Benjamin, 'Another laurel for Chimamanda, the queen of storytelling', Vanguard, 28 January 2007.
Gonzalez, Susan, 'In her novel, student tells human story of Biafran War', Yale Bulletin and Calendar 35.23 (30 March 2007).
Kleen, Björn af, 'Litterärt underbarn på Sverigebesök', Sydsvenskan, 29 May 2007. In Swedish.
Moss, Stephen, 'Madonna's not our saviour', Guardian, 8 June 2007, p. 44. Also published in Deccan Herald (India), 16 June 2007.
Millard, Rosie, 'This is the Africa you don't hear about', Sunday Times, 10 June 2007. Also published in Daily Sun (Nigeria), 20 June 2007.
Muhammad, Muhammad K., 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Daily Trust (Abuja), 10 June 2007.
Roy, Nilanjana S., 'Chimamanda Ngozi: Another Africa', Business Standard (New Delhi), 12 June 2007.
'Un autre regard sur l'Afrique', Inrockuptibles 602, 12 June 2007, p. 9.
Arana, Marie, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Teller of Tales', Washington Post, 17 June 2007, p. BW11.
Nwachukwu, McPhilips, 'Chimamanda Adichie's war story re-draws the map of truth', Vanguard, 17 June 2007.
Oksenhorn, Stewart, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Toward a broader view of Africa', Aspen Times 23 June 2007.
Nwachukwu, McPhilips and Ovo Adagha, 'Like Achebe, like Adichie', Vanguard, 24 June 2007.
'Chimamanda's Literary Garland', This Day, 4 July 2007.
Wilton, Caren, New Zealand Listener Vol 210 No 3507, 28 July - 3 August 2007.
Ghoshal, Somak, 'The African Writer and the Burden of History', Telegraph (India), 10 August 2007.
Eberhart, John Mark, 'Interview: Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie' , Kansas City Star, 8 September 2007.
Michael Janairo, 'Family is crucial to Adichie's writings', Times Union, 14 October 2007. News
Reynolds, Nigel, 'Young Nigerian writer eyes top fiction award', Independent, 27 April 2004.
Wood, Molara, 'Chimamanda's Day at the Orange Prize', Guardian (Nigeria), 13 June 2004.
Alisi, Cindy, 'Adichie wins Commonwealth Writers Prize', Daily Sun (Nigeria), 5 April 2005.
Pauli, Michelle, 'Nigerian debut makes John Llewellyn Rhys shortlist', Guardian, 14 November 2005.
Wood, Molara, 'Launching Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun', Guardian (Nigeria), 27 August 2006.
Afolayan, Sunday, 'Chimamanda named for Books Critics Circle Award', Daily Sun (Nigeria), 30 January 2007.
Ezard, John, 'Nigerian war epic sweeps to Orange prize victory', Guardian, 6 June 2007.
Majendie, Paul, 'Nigeria's Adichie lands Orange prize', Scotsman, 6 June 2007.
'Nigerian author is Orange winner', Metro, 6 June 2007.
'Adichie Wins U.K. Book Prize', Washington Post, 7 June 2007, p. 41.
'Canadian, Nigerian authors win Orange prizes', Times Colonist (Canada), 7 June 2007, p. 45.
'Nigerian novel wins Orange prize', Irish Times, 7 June 2007, p. 13.
'Nigerian wins Orange prize', Irish Independent, 7 June 2007, p. 33.
'African wins Orange Broadband Prize', Vancouver Sun, 7 June 2007, p. 43.
Duggan, Emily, 'Nigeria epic wins Orange prize for youngest writer', Independent, 7 June 2007.
Ezard, John, 'Testament to youth as war epic wins Orange prize', Guardian, 7 June 2007, p. 11. Also published in Age, 8 June 2007.
Hoyle, Ben, 'Nigerian civil war epic wins the Orange prize for fiction', Times, 7 June 2007.
Reynolds, Nigel, 'Nigerian author wins top literary prize', Telegraph, 7 June 2007.
Sexton, David, 'Yellow grabs the Orange as gifted Adichie wins for novel about Biafra', Evening Standard, 7 June 2007, p. 17.
'Nigerian wins women's literary prize', Australian, 8 June 2007, p. 12.
Wood, Molara, 'Chimamanda's Night of Glory', This Day (Lagos), 8 June 2007.
'Nigerian epic a winner', Straits Times (Singapore), 9 June 2007, p. 118.
'Adichie wins Orange for novel set in Biafran civil war', Edmonton Journal, 9 June 2007, p. 44.
Anderson, Hephzibah, 'Nigerian author wins literary prize for women', Philadelphia Inquirer, 9 June 2007, p. 25.
Pauli, Michelle, 'Adichie in running for second major award', Guardian, 27 June 2007.
'Garlands for Achebe, Adichie' (Editorial), Daily Sun, 11 July 2007.
'Fidelity Bank Plc and Chimamanda hold Creative Writing Workshop', Vanguard, 26 July 2007.
'Chimamanda Adichie moves for more creativity in Nigeria', Businessday, 26 July 2007.
'Binyavanga, Chimamanda for Fidelity Workshop', This Day, 27 July 2007.
Akubuiro, Henry, 'Glamour As Fidelity draws famous writers to Nigeria', Daily Sun, 29 July 2007.
'Literary grandees lobby EU-Africa summit', Guardian, 6 December 2007.
'Anambra honours budding novelist', Nigerian Tribune, 4 January 2008. Reviews of For Love of Biafra
Mueller, Stephen J., Review of Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again by Ola Rotimi and For Love of Biafra by Amanda N. Adichie, Voices: The Wisconsin Review of African Literatures 3, June 2000, pp. 116-119. Reviews of Decisions
Egonu, I.T.K., 'Decisions', Okike 38 (1998), pp. 98-102. Reviews of Purple Hibiscus
Publishers Weekly, 18 August 2003.
Lexington Herald-Leader (KY), 19 October 2003, p. E6.
Star Tribune, 19 October 2003.
Seventeen, November 2003.
'The getting of wisdom', Sunday Times, 29 February 2004, p. Culture 52.
Telegraph (Calcutta), 4 June 2004.
African Business, 1 November 2004.
Telegraph, 5 December 2004.
LiteraturNachrichten 85 (Summer 2005), p. 43. In German.
Sunday Mail (Australia), 27 February 2005.
Times, 26 January 2006, page turning reads p. 22.
Concord Monitor, 11 June 2006, p. D04.
Ajayi, Jare, Daily Sun (Nigeria), 15 June 2005.
Broun, Bill, 'A Moveable Feast', Washington Post, 4 January 2004.
Brézault, Eloïse, Notre Librairie 157 (January-March 2005). In French.
Chanda, Tirthankar, 'Les fleurs pourpres de la révolte', L'Humanité, 21 October 2004. In French.
Cooper, Lisa Pamela, 'Nigerian Novelist: Adichie's debut dazzles', Ubyssey Magazine, 1 October 2004.
Dawes, Kwame, World Literature Today 79.1 (January-April 2005), p. 84.
Dillon, Cathy, Irish Times, 19 March 2005.
Döring, Tobias, 'Masken, Mütter, Mythen', Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 29 March 2005, p. 34. In German.
Duguid, Lindsay, Sunday Times, 29 February 2004.
Eriksson, Magnus, 'Gripande om kolonialismens konsekvenser', Svenska Dagbladet, 6 February 2005. In Swedish.
Farrington, Susan, Sanford Herald, 23 October 2003.
Fels, Ludwig, 'Papa schlägt, mama blutet', Zeit, 11 May 2005. In German.
Gold, Lauren, 'New Nigerian novelist pays tribute to the past', Palm Beach Post, 26 October 2003. Also published in Kansas City Star, 23 November 2003, p. H9.
Gold, Lauren, 'Coming of age in Nigeria: Purple Hibiscus is a lyrical look at a nation of contrasts', San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 November 2003, p. BOOKS.2.
Greene, Andrée, 'Homeland', Boston Review 32.2, March-April 2007.
Gopal, Reena, Birmingham Post, 22 May 2004.
Hartl, John, New York Times, 23 November 2003.
Hewett, Heather, 'Finding her Voice', Women's Review of Books, 1 July 2004.
Hickling, Alfred, Guardian, 26 February 2005.
Hope, Christopher, 'Love in a time of terror', Telegraph, 6 March 2004.
Hore, Rachel, 'Layers of narrative', Guardian, 1 May 2004.
Hrastnik, Nataša, 'Vijolični hibiskus', Delo, 7 December 2005. In Slovenian.
Ismail, Aquila, 'Defining Convictions', Newsline, December 2005.
Kaplan, Erin Aubrey, 'Cry, Freedom', LA Weekly, 28 May - 3 June 2004.
Kessel, Anna, Africa Policy Journal, Spring 2006, vol. 1, pp. 116-118.
Levisalles, Natalie, 'Notre père qui êtes odieux: Débuts de la Nigériane Chimamanda N. Adichie', Libération, 23 September 2004. In French.
Lewitschnik, Liv, 'When Freedom Flowers', Socialist Review, July 2004.
Lorca, Alexie, 'La violence tyrannique d'un père', Lire, November 2004. In French.
Lyons, Gráinne, 'Waiting for Freedom to Flower', LIP Magazine 5, March 2005.
Madzimbamuto, Farai D., 'Purple Hibiscus: A tale Zimbabweans can relate to', Zimbabwean, 15 April 2005.
Mantel, Hilary, 'I have washed my feet out of it', London Review of Books 26.20, 21 October 2004.
Minton Quigley, Jenny, 'The heart of a girl, the heart of Nigeria', Hartford Courant, 16 November 2003, p. G.3.
Neill, Dan, 'Soap Flakes', Observer, 6 March 2005.
Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís, 'A rare flower', Irish Times, 5 June 2004.
Nwakanma, Obi, 'Chimamanda Adichie: A clear voice out of the deluge', Vanguard, 28 March 2004.
Oboe, Annalisa, Il Tolomeo: Le Nuove Letterature inediti articoli recensioni 9 (2005), pp. 46-47. In Italian.
Pearlman, Mickey, 'Purple Hibiscus: a vibrant debut', Star Tribune (Minneapolis), 18 October 2003.
Ramesh, Kala Krishnan, Hindu, 2 August 2005.
Roberts, Michele, New Statesman, 29 March 2004.
Roy, Sandip, 'Wriggling in the grips of father, god and country', San Francisco Chronicle, 14 September 2003.
Sidime, Aissatou, 'Tale of change goes beyond personal level', San Antonio Express-News, 23 November 2003, books page 6J.
Tepper, Anderson, Time Out New York 420, 16-23 October 2003.
Theiss, Nola, Kliatt, 1 January 2005.
Thomson, Margie, New Zealand Herald, 22 April 2004.
Tsiko, Sifelani, 'Adichie Brings to Fore Contemporary Struggles', Herald (Harare), 9 December 2006.
Tunca, Daria, Wasafiri 45 (Summer 2005), pp. 81-83.
Uwaezuoke, Okechukwu, ThisDay (Nigeria), 6 December 2005.
Venable, Malcolm, Black Issues Book Review, September-October 2003.
Villanueva Siasoco, Ricco, 'Voice-over: The best new novels by young women are reaching beyond "sassy" urban fiction', Boston Phoenix, 19-25 September 2003.
Walter, Natasha, Vogue, March 2004 [tentative].
Washburn, Lindy, 'Out of Africa, a coming-of-age story', Record (Bergen County, NJ), 31 October 2004.
Weate, Jeremy, 'A Lesson in Love', This Day, 2 June 2004.
Werimo, Christopher, 'Novel voice from a vast literary landscape', Sunday Nation (Kenya), 10 July 2005, Lifestyle Magazine p. 12.
Wilkinson, Joanne, Booklist, 15 September 2003.
Williams, Emyr, Daily Post (Liverpool), 21 May 2004.
Williams, Ranti, 'An Igbo Patriarch', Times Literary Supplement, 23 May 2004, p. 23. Also published in French as 'Adolescence en pays ibo: Un tyran épris de liberté', Courier International 705, 6 May 2004.
Note: Reviews of Purple Hibiscus were also published in the Boston Globe, the Daily Mail, the Glasgow Herald, the Herald Sunday (Portsmouth, NH), the San Antonio Express-News, Vanity Fair, Bust and INK Magazine. Any additional details are welcome. Reviews of Half of a Yellow Sun
Publishers Weekly, 26 June 2006.
Daily Mail, 18 August 2006.
Library Journal Reviews, 1 September 2006.
'Biafran Story', South China Morning Post, 10 September 2006.
'A lingering tale of lives torn apart by war', Sun Herald, 24 September 2006.
African Business, 1 October 2006.
Arizona Republic, 8 October 2006.
'Novel details stuggle for Biafran independence', Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 15 October 2006.
New Yorker, 16 October 2006.
'Imagined truths of a troubled landscape', Weekend Australian, 21 October 2006.
Sunday Telegraph (Australia), 22 October 2006.
'Personal pain, growth reflect African warfare', Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 22 October 2006.
'Paying a high price for survival', Age, 4 November 2006.
'Tragedy in Africa', Sunday Tasmanian, 5 November 2006.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 6 January 2007.
Summit Magazine (Cameroon), August-October 2007. 'Nigerian writer creates vivid tale of '60s Africa', Vancouver Sun, October 2006.
'Biafra's brief day in the Yellow Sun', Edmonton Journal, October 2006. -->
Abbas Fatin, Nation, 2 October 2006.
Akubuiro, Henry, 'Echoes of Death', Daily Sun (Nigeria), 31 December 2006.
Bailey Nurse, Donna, 'Adichie's second winner', Toronto Star, 3 December 2006.
Barnacle, Hugo, 'War in their worlds', Sunday Times, 27 August 2006.
Behe, Regis, 'Novel details stuggle for Biafran independence', Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 15 October 2006.
Birne, Eleanor, 'Raised Eyebrows', London Review of Books 28.19, 5 October 2006.
Blythe, Will, Elle Magazine, October 2006.
Byram, Lesley, 'Journey into the abyss of people's suffering during war', Cape Times, 22 December 2006.
Brennan, Mary, 'Half of a Yellow Sun: The sweeping story of a nation erased', Seattle Times, 22 September 2006.
Cameron, Matt, 'Adichie's gripping portrait of Nigerian war', Free-lance Star, 16 November 2006.
Carter Roiphe, Emily, 'Three Takes on a Nightmare', Star Tribune (Minneapolis), 22 September 2006.
Cheuse, Alan, 'Bright voice echoes from half-world away', Dallas Morning News, 1 October 2006. Also published in World Literature Today 81.1 (January-February 2007), p. 7.
Dunmore, Helen, 'The consolations of civil war', Times, 26 August 2006.
Fitzgerald, Mary, 'War stories', Observer, 11 February 2007.
Freeman, John, Las Vegas Weekly, 7-13 September 2006.
Green, John, 'Top fare from a Nigerian gem', Morning Star, 20 August 2006.
Greene, Andrée, 'Homeland', Boston Review 32.2, March-April 2007.
Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 'Post-nation depression', Financial Times, 13 April 2007.
Hallsworth, Caroline, Library Journal, 1 September 2006.
Habtezghi, Nazenet, 'Lit's it girl: a young writer lives up to the hype with a buzzworthy new novel', Essence, 1 September 2006.
Halberg, Jonny, 'Biafra som romankunst', Ny Tid, 21 December 2007. In Norwegian.
Haq, Amber, 'Rising Up From the Ashes: A dazzling novel finds humanity in the Biafran war', Newsweek, 23 October 2006.
Hewett, Heather, 'Orphans of the storm in Nigeria', Newsday, 19 November 2006, p. C.34.
Hicks, Heather, 'African novel both personal and political', Aspen Times, 30 December 2006.
Hoffert, Barbara, Library Journal, 1 May 2006.
Taylor, Ihsan, New York Times, 9 September 2007.
Jacobs, Susan, 'Yellow Sun, Orange Prize', New Zealand Herald, 1 July 2007.
Jaggi, Maya, 'The Master and his houseboy', Guardian, 19 August 2006. Also published as 'Casualties of war', Mail and Guardian (Johannesburg), 13 October 2006.
Jayalakshmi, K., 'In the showing', Deccan Herald, 5 August 2007.
Jensen, Sigmund, 'Lojalitet og svik', Afternbladet, 13 November 2007. In Norwegian.
Kellaway, Kate, 'It's off to war she goes', Observer, 13 August 2006.
Maslin, Jane, 'The Complex Business of Living While Ware Rages in Nigeria', New York Times, 21 September 2006.
Moore, Lisa, '... and all of a brilliant novel', Globe and Mail, 21 October 2006, p. D7.
Moyo, Sigcino, 'Awesome Adichie', Now Magazine 26.7, 19-25 October 2006.
Murphy, Siobhan, Metro, 22 August 2006.
Mwazemba, John, 'Nigeria: Chimamanda Weaves History into New Novel', East African Standard (Nairobi), 15 April 2007.
Narain, Stephen, 'Things (Still) Fall Apart', Harvard Book Review 8.2, Fall 2006.
Nixon, Rob, 'A Biafran Story', New York Times, 1 October 2006.
Nwakanma, Obi, Vanguard, 15 April 2007.
Nyairo, Joyce W., 'A nation's memory', Times Literary Supplement, 4 August 2006, p. 21.
Okeke, Remy, Sunday Sun (Nigeria), 2 September 2007, pp. 44-45.
Patterson, Christina, Independent, 9 February 2007.
Preston, Edwina, 'Infidelity in a time of war', Sydney Morning Herald, 23 September 2006.
Rubin, Martin, 'The birth and death of an African nation', San Francisco Chronicle, 5 September 2006.
Rubin, Merle, 'Nigeria civil war seen from sharpened angles', Los Angeles Times, 12 September 2006, p. E10. Also published as 'Bringing Insight To Rivalry, War And Strife', Hartford Courant, 17 September 2006.
Schwartz, Nils, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie/En halv gul sol', Kväls Posten Expressen, 24 May 2007. In Swedish.
Seaman, Donna, Booklist, August 2006.
Serugo, Moses, 'Ngozi's half of a yellow sun', Sunday Monitor: Sunday Life, 16-22 September 2007.
Sidime, Aissatou, 'Powerful novel tackles Nigeria's bleakest days', San Antonio Express-News, 24 December 2006, Books Page 11J. Also published as 'Twin sisters caught in a vicious civil war', Miami Herald, 9 January 2007.
Sooke, Alastair, 'Vandals at the gate', Daily Telegraph, 3 September 2006.
Stacey, Daniel, Australian, 21 October 2006.
Stack, Richard, 'Things fall into place', New Haven Independent, 9 October 2006.
Tay, J.H.C., 'Compelling tale of war', Malaysia Star, 16 June 2007.
Thayil, Sheba, 'Tragic Drama', Hindu, 2 September 2007.
Thompson, Heather, Telegraph, 18 February 2007.
Thompson, Stephen, 'An Africa of masters and servants', Scotland on Sunday, 6 August 2006.
Troberg Djuve, Maya, 'Nigeria i krig og kjærlighet', Dagbladet, 26 November 2007. In Norwegian.
Whitney, Susan, 'Biafra war saga is well-told', Deseret Morning News, 8 October 2006.
Wall, Stephen et al., Australian, 11 October 2006.
Waters, Juliet, 'Nigerian darkness and light', Montreal Mirror, 16 November 2006.
White, E. Frances, 'While the World Watched', Women's Review of Books, May/June 2007.
Wilson, Lindsay, 'Worldplay: Half of a Yellow Sun', Metropolitan (Denver, USA) 29.15, 30 November 2006.
Woods Butler, Amy, 'Novel about Biafra melds political, personal stories', St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 22 October 2006.
Wynn, Ron, 'New novel combines elegant romance with brutal historical reflection', City Paper (Nashville), 25 September 2006.
Note: A review of Half of a Yellow Sun was also published in People Magazine (author: Lee Aitken). Any additional details (date and possibly title) would be most welcome. Miscellaneous
Ufine, Ayodele, 'For Purple Hibiscus, the Reading Now Begins', This Day (Nigeria), 13 July 2004.
'Caine Prize Nominee, Adichie, Advises Youngsters', Daily Champion (Lagos), 21 July 2004.
Adeleke, Bayo, 'Dibiaezue Libraries Host Purple Hibiscus Author', This Day (Nigeria), 21 July 2004.
Akubuiro, Henry, 'Is Chimamanda the new Achebe? Literary community reacts', Daily Sun, 17 June 2007.
'Bleak publishing houses', Economist, 22 November 2007.
'Adichie: I Was Ashamed of My State', This Day, 4 January 2008.