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Sweden will gift a copy of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists to every 16- year-old in the country. The Swedish Women’s Lobby organization and the Albert Bonniers publishing house have formed a partnership.

They announced their hope “that We Should All Be Feminists will work as a stepping stone for a discussion about gender equality and feminism.” The Guardian reports that the collaborators launched this venture at Norra Real High School (based in Stockholm).

According to The Telegraph, the publisher released the Swedish translation of Adichie’s book, entitled Alla borde vara feminister, on Dec. 01, 2015. Click here to watch a video with Adichie’s message for the teens who will soon receive her book. Follow this link to watch her 2013 TED Talk which inspired her to create this book. (via BuzzFeed)

BBC Culture conducted a critics’ poll to select the “21st Century’s 12 greatest novels.” Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao captured the top spot.

The participating critics reviewed 156 books for this venture. Most of them named Díaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book as their number one pick.

The other eleven titles that made it include Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Atonement by Ian McEwan, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain, A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, and The Known World by Edward P. Jones. Did one of your favorites make it onto the list? (via The Guardian)

Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has written a new short story entitled “Olikoye.” It has been posted in its entirety on medium.com.

This piece appears in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “The Art of Saving a Life.” According to the project’s website, this is a “collection of stories about how vaccines continue to change the course of history. It offers an opportunity to hear, see and feel the tremendous impact of immunization, and to energize us in the global effort to protect every child from life-threatening disease.”

For Adichie (pictured, via), her goal in writing this piece is to humanize “the importance of healthcare.” Follow this link to listen to her 2009 TED talk on “the danger of a single story.” What do you think? (via Entertainment Weekly)

Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o (pictured, via) will star in and serve as a producer for Americanah film adaptation. According to BuzzFeed, the story in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel follows "a young Nigerian woman who emigrates to America for a university education." As of this writing, no release date has been announced.

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Epic in scope and astutely narrated, Adichie's unabashedly frank novel follows Ifemelu as she moves from Nigeria to the U.S. and then back again. This is a book about race, about loneliness, about a love that straddles continents. And it's an absolute treat to read. Books mentioned in this post Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie New [...]

Goodreads has opened up the voting for its fifth annual Goodreads Choice Awards. The awards include twenty different categories from fiction and poetry to humor and fantasy. Authors Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Wally Lamb have been nominated for Fiction. Dan Brown and J.K. Rowling have both been nominated in the Mystery category.

Here is more about how the books are chosen from the Goodreads blog:

The Goodreads Choice Awards are the only major book awards decided by readers, and we find our nominees from books that our members read and love throughout the year. There’s no judging panel or industry experts. We analyzed statistics from the 250 million books added, rated, and reviewed on the site in 2013 to nominate 15 books in each category. Of course, with hundreds of thousands of books published in 2013, no nominee list could cover the amazing breadth of books reviewed on Goodreads so we also accept write-in votes during the Opening Round to ensure that you can vote for exactly the book you want.

Readers will be able to vote in three rounds of voting. The opening round lasts through November 9. The highest voted titles will make it to the Semifinals which last from November 11 – 16. Readers can vote on the final choices November 18 – 25.

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THIS JUST IN...actually made my day and has me right back on blog/track. It also comes via JULIE BOSMAN at The New York Times:

“The New Yorker has chosen its “20 Under 40” list of fiction writers worth watching, a group assembled by the magazine’s editors in a lengthy, secretive process that has provoked considerable anxiety among young literary types.”

This diverse group of writers are from ALL OVER the globe! One of them I introduced to you months ago, Chimamanda Adichie, speaks about the dangers of telling a single story.  Her powerful message of inclusivity in literature resonated so profoundly with my broadcast journalism students this year, that I will be implementing her TED video into my September curriculum.
 

(photo comes of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie comes via NYT Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center)