YOU may be wondering what the Nigerian novelist’s business is with music, let alone an American award scheme, but knowing that no music is independent of lyrics, Chimamanda Adichie, through one of her works, becomes a stakeholder.
Following her TEDx talk on why “We Should All Be Feminists,” American singer, Beyonce Knowles, incorporated the writer’s essay into her single, which further brought more life to her craft. Thus, the award-winning writer, whose works such as Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah are being adapted for the cinema, gave verve to Beyonce’s 2013 track, Flawless, which has been nominated for the Grammy.
The nomination for “Album of the Year”, alongside Beyonce, who is described as her fellow feminist, is just yet another achievement for the writer.
Adichie, whose work has been translated into thirty languages, has also appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope.
Some of the awards received by the writer include the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction in 2007 and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2008.
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