One of Nigeria's award-winning authors, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has added another feather to her cap, with her book "Half of a yellow sun" winning the best women's prize for fiction. She has also been named the ‘Best of the Best’ of the winners of the second decade of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction , as chosen by the Chairs of judges of the past ten years. In her acceptance note, she said "This is a prize that I really respect because I think this is a prize that has consistently brought very good literature to the forefront and has introduced really good books that might have not received the kind of recognition if not for this prize" Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into thirty languages. She is the author of three novels; Purple Hibiscus , which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction; Half of a Yellow Sun , whi...