Aminatta Forna

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Aminatta Forna is affiliated with the following schools: University College London, Bath Spa University

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Aminatta Forna

Literature

#1422

World Rank

#2865

Historical Rank

Writing

#497

World Rank

#758

Historical Rank

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According to Wikipedia, Aminatta Forna, OBE, is a Scottish and Sierra Leonean writer. She is the author of a memoir, The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest, and four novels: Ancestor Stones , The Memory of Love , The Hired Man and Happiness . Her novel The Memory of Love was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for "Best Book" in 2011, and was also shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Forna is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and was, until recently, Sterling Brown Distinguished Visiting professor at Williams College in Massachusetts. She is currently Director and Lannan Foundation Chair of Poetics of the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University.

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The Memory of Love (2010) (30)
Death of a Nation (2002) (23)
The devil that danced on the water (2002) (20)
The devil that danced on the water : a daughter's memoir of her father, her family, her country and a continent (2002) (8)
New Writing and Nigeria (2006) (7)
MOTHERS OF AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA: Shared maternal values among Black women (2000) (6)
Memory and Forgetting (2006) (5)
The Hired Man (2013) (5)
Selective Empathy: Stories and the Power of Narrative (2017) (2)
Where are the West's political novelists? [blogpost] (2015) (1)
Back Where We Started (2006) (1)
Don't judge a book by it's author (2015) (0)
Your nationalism can't contain me (2016) (0)
Hayward's Heath, The Verb, BBC Radio 3 (2010) (0)
The afterlife of a memoir (2017) (0)
Happiness: A Novel (2018) (0)
Portrait of Secrets (2009) (0)
On Happiness (2019) (0)
Who Owns Your Story? Transcending the trauma narrative (2022) (0)
Rings on her fingers (The Verb) (2007) (0)
Writing in Englishes: Taking Control of the Technology of Power through Literary Aesthetics: A Keynote Speech to the African Studies Association Conference, 2021 (2022) (0)

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