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)

Collections

The BBC National Short Story Award 2010 (2010) (with David Constantine, Sarah Hall, Jon McGregor and Helen Oyeyemi)

Non fiction

Mother of All Myths (1998)
The Devil That Danced On the Water (2002)

Awards

	Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2011) : The Memory of Love
	International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (2012) : The Memory of Love

Aminatta Forna recommends

Tales of the Metric System (2016)
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Home Fire (2017)
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"Shamsie's simple, lucid prose plays in perfect harmony with the heartbeat of modern times. Home Fire deftly reveals all the ways in which the political is as personal as the personal is political. No novel could be as timely."

The White City (2017)
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