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Adichie said she was proud to take on the mantle of Nigerian authors Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka
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Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus, was also shortlisted for the award - formerly known as the Orange Prize for Fiction - in 2004
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Half of a Yellow Sun takes its name from the flag of the short-lived Biafran Republic
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African talent At the ceremony, Adichie said: "I can only tell you how profoundly happy I am - Now I have to go and make a phone call to Nigeria"
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"I suppose I was born with the story-telling gene"
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"I immediately thought, that is the kiss of death," she told the BBC. The 29-year-old becomes the youngest winner, and the first from Africa, to win for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun, set in the 1960s Biafran civil war
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Both her grandfathers died in that conflict and she said: "This book is my refusal to forget"
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Her book focuses on three characters - a houseboy, a rich Nigerian woman and an English would-be writer living in Nigeria and how their lives and relationships are affected by the war
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She said there was a lot of writing talent in Africa, especially Nigeria and Kenya, but it was hard for new writers to flourish because of the poor infrastructure
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I suppose I was born with the story-telling gene Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Chair of the judges Muriel Gray said Half A Yellow Sun was "a moving and exciting book by an incredibly exciting author"
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In 2002, she won the BBC Short Story competition for That Harmattan Morning.
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She beat five other contenders for the £30,000 women-only award, including Kiran Desai, shortlisted for her Booker Prize winner The Inheritance of Loss
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"It's astonishing, not just in the skilful subject matter but in the brilliance of its accessibility"
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Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says she was surprised to have won the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, despite being the favourite
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"We lack a system that encourages writing - when you think of an education system that devalues literature," she told the BBC. She grew up on a university campus in the south-eastern Nigerian town of Nsukka and said she had been writing from the age of just six years old
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