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Aminatta Forna

(b.1964)

Aminatta Forna was born in Glasgow, raised in Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom and now divides her time between London and Sierra Leone. Formerly an award winning journalist for BBC Television (1989-99), she is now a full-time writer.

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   Ancestor Stones (2006)
   The Memory of Love (2010)
   The Hired Man (2013)
   Happiness (2018)

Series contributed to

BBC National Short Story Award
The BBC National Short Story Award 2010 (2010) (with others)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Aminatta Forna

New Daughters of Africa (2019)
An International Anthology of Writing By Women of African Descent
edited by
Margaret Busby

Freeman's Power (2018)
edited by
John Freeman

One World Two (2016)
A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories
(One World, book 2)
edited by
Chris Brazier

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Award nominations

	2012 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : The Memory of Love
	2011 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : The Memory of Love
	2010 BBC National Short Story Prize (nominee) : Haywards Heath

Aminatta Forna recommends

River Spirit (2023)
Leila Aboulela
"River Spirit had me gripped from the first page. This is real history, imagined in splendid detail, a story of ordinary people caught in extraordinary times. The characters' interwoven narratives create a book shaped into twists and turns all the way to its thrilling end. A triumph of storytelling."

Black Butterflies (2022)
Priscilla Morris
"Dark and yet starkly beautiful."

Unbury Our Dead With Song (2021)
Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ
"Part mystery, part road novel, part philosophical enquiry, [this] is a dazzling journey to discover the meaning of music and its immense power over the human soul."

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