Nigerian Author and writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who has been called, "the most prominent" has got one of her books named the best book of 2013. The BBC has named Chimamanda Adichie's 'Americanah' the best book of 2013. According to their website, she has been awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (for Purple Hibiscus), the Orange Broadband award (for Half of a Yellow Sun), and a MacArthur 'genius' grant.
She has been attracting a lot of new generation readers of African literature. She is from Enugu state and is doing Nigeria proud with her award winning African literature. Other books and their authors who made second and third most prominent respectively are The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber and The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon.
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