Aminatta Forna (Author of The Memory of Love).
Aminatta Forna. Aminatta Forna is the author of the novels Ancestor Stones, The Memory of Love, and The Hired Man, as well as the memoir The Devil That Danced on the Water.Forna’s books have been translated into sixteen languages. Her essays have appeared in Granta, The Guardian, The Observer, and Vogue.She is currently the Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University.
Aminatta Forna was born in Scotland and raised in West Africa and the UK. Her most recent novel The Hired Man is a tale of love, loss, betrayal and war in Croatia.
About the Author. Aminatta Forna was born in Scotland and raised in West Africa. Her first book, The Devil that Danced on the Water, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2003.Her novel Ancestor Stones was winner of the 2008 Hurston Wright Legacy Award, the Literaturpreis in Germany, was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and selected by the Washington Post as.
Aminatta Forna is an author, broadcaster and journalist. Her latest book is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood. A daughter's memoir of her dissident father and her family, The Devil That Danced on the Water (HarperCollins May 2002) is.
What a coincidence then, a few days after this encounter, to pick up a copy of Aminatta Forna’s Happiness, a book which concerns itself not only with the life and times of London’s urban foxes, but also with other anomalous wild trespassers into our urban landscape—coyotes, parakeets. .. even a whale is granted an unlikely (but based on true events) cameo, swimming up the Thames to its.
Aminatta Forna was born in Scotland, but her family moved to Sierra Leone when she was six months old. Her father, Mohamed Forna, was a physician who became involved in politics. He was imprisoned between 1970 and 1973 and declared an Amnesty Prisoner of Conscience. In 1975, when Aminatta was 11, he was hanged for treason.
Aminatta Forna was born in Glasgow, raised in Sierra Leone and Britain and also spent periods of her childhood in Iran, Thailand and Zambia. She is the award-winning author of two novels, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and a memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.