Chimamanda Adichie: Beauty does not solve any problem

I am drawn to the beauty of sentences, Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie confesses in this interview. Nevertheless it is important to keep a distance to your characters. Chimamanda Adichie (b. 1977) discovered literature at a very early age. “I started reading and writing at the same time“, she says in this conversation. “If the writing is going well, it is almost transcendent. Then it is a state of being.“ Adichie explains, that she is drawn to melancholy: “Both in people, stories and music I find it ve