Chimamanda Adichie wins US National Critics Prize

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is clearly having the best month of her life as she promotes her new book, Americanah.

Here's another reason for her to go dancing in the wind - she has won the US National Critics Book Prize for the novel.

The book was also selected as one of The New York Times' 10 best books of 2013.

The National Critics Book Prize was first awarded in 1974 and is open to writers of all nationalities whose work has been published in the US.

Americanah was published in May 2013 by Alfred A. Knopf. It's a fictional novel that unravels the story of a young Nigerian woman who emigrates to America for a university education.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, born 15 September 1977, has been called "the most prominent of a procession of critically acclaimed young Anglophone authors [that] is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature", and her string of awards keep substantiating that claim.