Elle Magazine US Features Nigeria's Chimamanda Adiche As Beyonce'sFavourite Novelist.

In case you haven’t heard Beyonce's feminist masterpiece ‘Flawless’ from her self-titled album released December 18, 2013, it is a track which features part of a TED Talk speech by feminist, New York Times best-selling author, and speaker Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

There’s kind of no other way to say it: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is one of those women you feel good about fan-girling over. Whip smart and well-spoken, she has the rare combination of It-factor and substance. At 36, she’s received PEN, O. Henry, and Orange prizes, as well as a MacArthur ‘genius’ grant; when she accepts each award her flawless, often crimson smile is infectious, even in photos.

She also unapologetically loves clothes—though she didn’t always. In ELLE’s March issue, she examines the frustrating idea that “women who [want] to be taken seriously [are] supposed to substantiate their seriousness with a studied indifference to appearance.”

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