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How To Correctly Pronounce Authors’ Names.

A guide to names you know but wouldn’t say out loud, like Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Michel Houellebecq, Michael Chabon, etc. No, seriously: It’s SHAY-bahn.

Just the other day someone pronounced it “Sha-bone” and it felt so wrong.
He’s a writer, not a porn star.