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Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has won the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, which honors the best book of the past year written in English by a woman, for Half of a Yellow Sun. The 29-year-old author is the first African to win the prize, and also the youngest. Among her competition were Anne Tyler, Kiran Desai and Rachel Cusk.
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