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Chimamanda Adiche’s book named ‘best of the best’

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Also trending for her winning streak is Adichie who has won the “Best of the Best” award. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun has topped a list of the last decade’s winners of the Baileys Women’s Fiction Prize.

“Best of the best” is part of the celebrations to mark 20 years of the annual £30,000 prize.
The Nigerian author won in 2007 for her story, her second novel, set during the Biafran War of the 1960s.
The 38-year-old said of the prize, Over the years it’s brought wonderful literature to a wide readership that might not have found many of the books. I feel I am in very good company.
Other winners of the Baileys Prize from the last decade include Zadie Smith for On Beauty and Eimear McBride for A Girl is a Half-formed Thing.
Established in 1996, the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction – formally the Orange Prize for Fiction, is awarded to the best novel of the year written by a woman. Baileys took over sponsorship in 2014.

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