Orange Prize for Fiction 2007 winner announced

This year's winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun. From the Orange Prize website:

'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. She is from Abba in Anambra State, but grew up in the university town of Nsukka.
Her first novel Purple Hibiscus was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for debut fiction. She lives in Nigeria.'

Also on the site is steaming video interview with the author, and a review of Half of a Yellow Sun written by Moby.