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Chimamanda Adichie’s Dream Count Lands Women’s Prize For Fiction Longlist On Release Day

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Chimamanda Adichie Dream Count

Award-winning Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has earned a longlist nomination for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction with her latest novel, Dream Count, just hours after its global release yesterday.

The Women’s Prize for Fiction is one of the most prestigious literary awards celebrating exceptional fiction written in English by women. Now in its 30th year, the UK-based prize awards £30,000 (approximately $38,000) and a bronze sculpture known as The Bessie to the winner.

Adichie’s Dream Count follows the intertwined lives of four women navigating the complexities of identity, memory, and the consequences of their choices across Nigeria and America. The novel’s early recognition highlights Adichie’s continued influence in contemporary literature.

Adichie is no stranger to the Women’s Prize for Fiction, having won the award in 2007 for Half of a Yellow Sun. Her debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, while Americanah received the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also known for her feminist work Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions.

A total of 16 books were longlisted. The shortlist of six novels will be announced on April 2, with the final winner set to be revealed on June 12. If Adichie wins, she will become one of the few authors to claim the Women’s Prize for Fiction more than once.

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