Chimamanda’s next book will be released on March 20.
In April 2024, the 47-year-old award-winning author Chimamanda Adichie and her spouse welcomed twins.
The author revealed in an interview on Saturday that she had kept the twins’ birth a secret to “protect” them, but she was even less motivated to do so because Nigerians are curious about people’s personal lives.
“I wish to keep my kids safe. She stated, “I don’t want the piece to become about them, but I’m fine with them being mentioned.”
The problem is that Nigerians are inquisitive. They are curious about your private life. I am resistant as a result. I hardly ever discuss it,” she remarked.
Adichie’s first full-length book in eleven years will be released in March. The book Dream Count examines love, desire, and the intricacies of womanhood throughout the lives of four distinct women.
She talked about her unscheduled break from writing that started when she got pregnant with her first kid.
Adichie stated that she spent years attempting to reconnect with her creative side after feeling “cast out” from the part of her that creates and imagines, even though she was still able to write nonfiction.
“I didn’t want the time between novels to be so long. “Something just happened when I became pregnant with my daughter,” she stated.
For several years, I was practically entirely afraid that I would never write again. It was intolerable. Because I’m superstitious, I dislike using phrases like “writer’s block.” But for many years, I felt as though I had been kicked out of my creative self, the part of me that imagines and produces; I simply couldn’t get there. “I could write nonfiction, that was fine,” I said. But my heart didn’t desire that.
Adichie is an author, feminist, and the wife of Ivara Esege, a Nigerian physician.
In 2009, the pair were married, and in 2016, they welcomed their first daughter. Adichie was named one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People,” the New Yorker’s “20 under 40,” and the New African’s “100 Most Influential Africans” in 2019. She also became the first Nigerian to receive the United Nations Foundation’s Global Leadership Award.
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