Home Book Review Books Chimamanda Adichie’s Dream Count Lands Women’s Prize For Fiction Longlist On Release Day
BooksCulture

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

1.5k
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.

Read More:

About The Author

Leave a comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Related Articles

CultureEntertainmentMusic

GRAMMY House Giza Becomes First Recording Academy Hub in Africa and Outside the U.S.

The Recording Academy officially opened GRAMMY House Giza in Egypt, its first-ever...

ArtCultureEntertainment

When Fela Declared His Home An Independent Republic: A Code and Theatre For Resistance

Between the 1970s and 80s, music in Nigeria was not always a...

CultureFilm

U.K. Selects Nigerian Story My Father’s Shadow for Oscars International Category

The United Kingdom has selected My Father’s Shadow, a Nigerian drama film...

CultureEventsFilm

Burkina Faso’s Katanga Leads 2025 AMAA Race, Nigeria’s Lisabi Among Top Contenders

The Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) 2025 have unveiled their nominations. Burkina...