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}} Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (; born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian novelist, nonfiction writer and short story writer. She has been called "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors () is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature".〔James Copnall, "Steak Knife", ''The Times Literary Supplement'', 16 December 2011, p. 20.〕 ==Personal life and education== Adichie, who was born in the city of Enugu, grew up the fifth of six children in an Igbo family in the university town of Nsukka in southeastern Nigeria, where the University of Nigeria is situated. While she was growing up, her father James Nwoye Adichie was a professor of statistics at the university, and her mother Grace Ifeoma was the university's first female registrar.〔 Her family's ancestral village is in Abba in Anambra State.〔("Biography" ), The Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie website.〕 Adichie studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half. During this period, she edited ''The Compass,'' a magazine run by the university's Catholic medical students. At the age of 19, Adichie left Nigeria for the United States to study communications and political science at Drexel University in Philadelphia; she transferred to Eastern Connecticut State University to be near her sister, who had a medical practice in Coventry. She received a bachelor's degree from Eastern, with the distinction of ''summa cum laude'' in 2001. In 2003, she completed a master's degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. In 2008, she received a Master of Arts degree in African studies from Yale University. Adichie was a Hodder fellow at Princeton University during the 2005–06 academic year. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also been awarded a 2011–12 fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Adichie divides her time between Nigeria, where she teaches writing workshops, and the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theguardian.com/profile/chimamandangoziadichie )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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