Chimamanda Adichie Nominated For Grammy Award

Award-winning writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been nominated for a Grammy Award.

The nomination is hinged on her collaboration with the American singer Beyonce on the song “Flawless”, which has become an iconic song for women around the world and which has also become the most popular song on Beyonce’s recent album everywhere across the globe.

Beyoncé’s recent self titled album, which includes “Flawless”, is in the running for Album Of The Year at the Grammy Awards, and all major participants on the album are nominated, as is the practice.

Beyonce has spoken out about how much Chimamanda’s speech in TEDx on why ''We Should All Be Feminist'' inspired her and why she just had to sample it in her song.

Chimamanda Adichie, by virtue of this nomination, becomes the first Nigerian writer to be a Grammy nominee.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria and her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope.

She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book, and a People and Black Issues Book Review Best Book of the Year; and the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck.

Her latest novel Americanah, was published around the world in 2013, and has received numerous accolades, including winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction; and being named one of The New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year.

A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

The Grammy Award will hold on February 8th in America and whether Beyonce's album wins or not, the nomination is already a milestone for a Nigerian writer.

The Grammy Award - one of the world’s most prestigious Music Award is organized by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry.