# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aminatta-forna
# Generated: 2026-08-15T16:29:28.172Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aminatta-forna"
name: "Aminatta Forna"
slug: "aminatta-forna"
description: "Aminatta Forna 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). In 2021 she published a collection of essays, The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion. (2021), which was a new genre for her."
tagline: "Scottish and Sierra Leonean writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aminatta_Forna_5190258.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1964"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.834848
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2691064/"
    handle:    "nm2691064"
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    url:       "https://aminattaforna.com"
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    title: "Aminatta Forna"
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    title: "Aminatta Forna"
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    title: "Aminatta Forna"
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    title: "Aminatta Forna"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Aminatta Forna"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump