Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won this year's Orange Prize.
"After the publication of her first book Purple Hibiscus, one critic described Ms Adichie as 'Chinua Achebe's 21st Century daughter'. With a mathematics professor father and her mother a university administrator, Ms Adichie was not expected to become a writer." Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]