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Aminatta Forna

Scottish and Sierra Leonean writer

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Born 1964 · age 62United Kingdom
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    62
    Born 1964
  • Known for
    Africa Turns the Page:…
    2020
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Updated 2026-07-09

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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