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Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's first book “Purple Hibiscus” won the 2005 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for best first book. Her second novel “Half of a Yellow Sun” won the prestigious 2007 Orange Prize for fiction. Her third book and her first collection of short stories is “The Thing Around Your Neck”.

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