Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun has topped a list of the last decade's winners of the Baileys Women's Fiction Prize.
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| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
She won the "Best of the Best" award as part of the celebrations to mark 20 years of the annual £30,000 prize.
Nigerian author Adichie won in 2007 for her story, her second novel, set during the Biafran War of the 1960s.
Adicihie said she was "grateful and happy", adding: "This is a prize I have a lot of respect and admiration for."
The 38-year-old novelist continued: "Over the years it's [the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction] brought wonderful literature to a wide readership that might not have found many of the books.
"I have a lot of respect for the books that have won in the past 10 years and also for the books that have been shortlisted - I feel I am in very good company."
Other winners of the Baileys Prize from the last decade include Zadie Smith for On Beauty, Rose Tremain for The Road Home and Eimear McBride for A Girl is a Half-formed Thing.
Source: BBC
Source: BBC
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