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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 ...
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). [1] [2] Since then she has written four novels: Ancestor Stones (2006), [3] The Memory of Love (2010), [4] The Hired Man (2013) [5] [6] and Happiness (2018).
Aminatta Forna was born in Scotland, raised in Sierra Leone and Great Britain and spent periods of her childhood in Iran, Thailand and Zambia. She is the award-winning author of the novels Happiness , The Hired Man , The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones , and a memoir, The Devil that Danced on the Water .
"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."
Aminatta Forna was born in Glasgow, raised in Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom and now divides her time between London and Sierra Leone. Her published works include The Devil that Danced on the Water (2002), a memoir of her dissident father and her country, Ancestor Stones (2006), a novel set in West Africa, The Memory of Love (2010), The ...
Oct 21, 2014 · 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 that...
aminattaforna. Genre. Literature & Fiction. edit data. Aminatta’s books have been translated into eighteen languages. Her essays have appeared in Freeman’s, Granta, The Guardian, LitHub, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The Observer and Vogue.
Aminatta Forna was born in Scotland, raised in Sierra Leone and Great Britain and spent periods of her childhood in Iran, Thailand and Zambia. She is the award-winning author of the novels Happiness, The Hired Man, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones.
Apr 1, 2022 · An interview with Aminatta Forna about her TYR essay “Who Owns Your Story? Transcending the trauma narrative.”
Aminatta Forna is an award-winning author and director of the Lannan Center at Georgetown University. Her books—the novels Happiness (2018), The Hired Man (2013), The Memory of Love (2010), and Ancestor Stones (2006); a memoir, The Devil that Danced on the Water (2002); and an essay collection, The Window Seat (2021)—have been translated ...
