The 29-year-old becomes the youngest winner, and the first from Africa, to win for her novel Half A Yellow Sun, set in the 1960s Biafran civil war.
Both her grandfathers died in that conflict and she said: "This book is my refusal to forget."
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.
5 comments:
good stuff.
Yay!!!!!
havent read that book...dont think i will.
very proud of the sister!
great stuff, elle woods who asked u , stick to ur comics
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