By Lauren Lee, CNN

Even the most celebrated voices can fall silent. For Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the acclaimed author of “Purple Hibiscus,” “Americanah” and “Half of a Yellow Sun,” that silence stretched into years — a period marked by depression, self-doubt and the unsettling feeling that the stories she was meant to tell were locked away.

Her new novel, “Dream Count,” the first in over a decade, marks a triumphant return to fiction and a deeply personal rebirth. But getting here meant navigating one of the most challenging chapters of her life.

“In the years that I couldn’t write, I was fighting depression,” Adichie tells CNN. “Not being able to write fiction when fiction is the thing that you deeply love — it’s just a terrible place to be.”

The 47-year-old Nigerian author faced sev

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