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Aminatta Forna is one of our most important literary voices, and her novels have won the Windham Campbell Prize in Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book. Now, she returns with The Window Seat, an elegantly rendered, thought-provoking collection of new and previously published essays. In this wide-ranging collection, Forna ...
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Details about Aminatta Forna's books. The Devil that Danced...
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"Aminatta Forna: don't judge a book by its author," The...
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Rogbonko was founded by Aminatta Forna's grandfather, a...
- The Memory of Love
"Aminatta Forna's brilliant new novel takes an oblique look...
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Aminatta Forna, OBE, is a British writer of Scottish and Sierra Leonean ancestry. Her first book was a memoir, The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest (2002). Since then she has written four novels: Ancestor Stones (2006), The Memory of Love (2010), The Hired Man (2013) and Happiness (2018).
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- Simon Westcott
"Aminatta Forna's latest novel, Happiness, tells the story of Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. It's a powerfully affecting examination of the immigrant experience and turns upon the disappearance of a child on London's dark and unforgiving streets."
Apr 1, 2022 · Aminatta Forna, a writer and memoirist, discusses her essay "Who Owns Your Story?" and how trauma narratives have become dominant in American culture. She also explores the concept of looping, the costs of narcissistic empathy, and the resilience of people who have endured suffering.
Aminatta Forna, of Sierra Leonean and Scottish heritage, is an award-winning author whose books explore the topics of betrayal, shared silence, love and loss. Forna’s first work, The Devil...
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She has written stories for BBC radio and written and presented television documentaries including “The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu” (BBC Television, 2009) and “Girl Rising” (CNN, 2013). Aminatta is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the Folio Academy.
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