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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.
- Biography
Aminatta Forna was born in Scotland, raised in Sierra Leone...
- Happiness, a Novel
In this delicate yet powerful novel of loves lost and new,...
- Biography
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
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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 .
In this delicate yet powerful novel of loves lost and new, of past griefs and of the hidden side of a multicultural metropolis, Aminatta Forna asks us to consider the values of the society we live in, our co-existence with one another and all living creatures—and the true nature of happiness.
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...
Aminatta is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the Folio Academy. She has acted as judge for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Bailey Prize for Women’s Fiction, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, the Caine Prize and the International Man Booker Prize.
Learn about the life and works of Aminatta Forna, a Scottish-Sierra Leonean writer of fiction, non-fiction and journalism. Explore her themes of identity, war, memory and animal rights in her acclaimed books and essays.
