It has sold 500,000 copies in the United States, will be translated into 25 languages and adapted for the screen by actors and producers Brad Pitt and Lupita Nyong'o.She inspired Beyoncé, who used excerpts from it in his song" . We should all be feminists" was later published as a pamphlet under the title "We are all feminists." While Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's thinking has infused pop culture, from fashion to music, she has long been recognized as one of the major authors of the literature contemporary English-speaking. In 2005, her first book, The Purple Hibiscus, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book.