Aminatta Forna
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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).
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Kwame Kwei-ArmahAlso in Africa Turns the Page: The Novels That Shaped a Continent (2020)
David OlusogaAlso in Africa Turns the Page: The Novels That Shaped a Continent (2020)
Diane AbbottAlso in Africa Turns the Page: The Novels That Shaped a Continent (2020)
Kate GrenvilleAlso won Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Adesuwa AighewiAlso won OkayAfrica 100 Women
Branden Jacobs-JenkinsAlso won Windham-Campbell Literature PrizesAbout this person
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.
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