Chimamanda Adichie’s new book Dear Ijeawele has added yet another feather to her cap as it won the Le Grand Prix De L’héroïne Madame Figaro award for. Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie has been named the winner of the Le Grand Prix De L’héroïne Madame Figaro. The prize was established in 2006 by the French magazine Madame Figaro to celebrate heroines of French and foreign literature and each year the shortlisted works are selected by the magazine’s editor.
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And this year, a team of judges, chaired by Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, a journalist, selected one French novel, one foreign novel in translation, and one nonfiction work. Of which ‘Chère Ijeawele, ou un manifeste pour une éducation féministe’, the French translation of ‘Dear Ijeawele,’ a book by Adichie, was selected as the winner in the nonfiction category. Along with Adichie, Alex Stresi was awarded the prize in the French novel category for ‘Lopping’ and Lauren Groff received the foreign novel prize for ‘Les Furies.’ Reacting to the award, Marie-Pierre Gracedieu of Gallimard, Adichie’s French publisher, said:
“When I read Dear Ijeawele, I felt an urge to share it with many friends, women, and men, who had become parents of a girl in the recent years. “Then I started to feel it had to be read by parents of boys too. And thereafter by every one of us to investigate our own education, and try to overcome a few inherited clichés. Therefore to publish it at Gallimard has meant a lot to me, and it is a very rewarding experience to see it awarded the Grand Prix de l’Héroïne by Madame Figaro, a prize that celebrates the power of literature and of characters as role models. “The fact that such an established and popular weekly has understood the importance of spreading the content of this letter-manifesto, even in the Western world, and especially in the political context we are now, brings me joy and hope.”
Dear Ijeawele is another powerful book about feminism today—written as a letter to a friend. In the book, Adichie proposed that if we want a fairer world we need to raise our sons and daughters differently. In the book, the Chimamanda Adichie argues empowering a girl child to becoming a strong, independent woman, starts from encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires. Having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can “allow” women to have full careers.
Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It starts a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today. Dear Ijeawele is not her first book on Feminism. Her ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ award-winning TED talk of the same name was watched by more than 2 million people on YouTube and sampled by Beyoncé in her single Flawless,
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