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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Conversation with Ramona Koval
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Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, talks to Ramona Koval about her new collection of stories The Thing Around Your Neck. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this new collection is a resounding confirmation of Adichie's prodigious storytelling powers.

'Here is a new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers.' Chinua Achebe

In Conversation  |  Fiction
Participants
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ramona Koval (facilitator)

When
Saturday, May 23 2009
14:30 - 15:30

Where
Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay
22 Hickson Road
Walsh Bay
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Cost
$15/$10

Bookings
9250 1988
 Sydney Theatre Box Office

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RAMONA KOVAL (INTERSTATE)
RAMONA KOVAL has a regular program, The Book Show, on ABC Radio National each weekday and on Sundays. She has also written several books including the novel Samovar and two Jewish cookbooks.

also appearing at...
74: Richard Holloway on ABC Radio National’s Book Show
132: Listening to the Twentieth Century: Alex Ross in Conversation with Ramona Koval
149: Cees Nooteboom on ABC Radio National’s Book Show

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE (INTERNATIONAL)Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi by Beowulf Sheehan

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. She holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins and a Masters degree in African Studies from Yale. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her work has been translated into 30 languages. She was a 2005-2006 Hodder Fellow at Princeton, where she taught introductory fiction. She divides her time between the United States and Nigeria. Her new collection is The Thing Around Your Neck.

Her participation is supported by HarperCollins Publishers.


 halfofayellowsun.com

also appearing at...
65: Opening Address presented by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
94: The Long and Short of It
142: First Tuesday Book Club
272: International Voices