Aminatta Forna

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rdf:langString Aminatta Forna

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rdf:langString Aminatta Forna

rdf:langString Aminatta Forna at the awards ceremony of the LiBeraturpreis 2008 for her book "Ancestor Stones".

rdf:langString Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Award 2011;

rdf:langString Forna in Frankfurt am Main, 2008

rdf:langString Happiness

rdf:langString The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest ;

rdf:langString Ancestor Stones ;

rdf:langString The Hired Man ;

rdf:langString The Memory of Love ;

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rdf:langString Simon Westcott

rdf:langString Aminatta Forna, OBE (born 1964), 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 (2006), The Memory of Love (2010), The Hired Man (2013) and Happiness (2018). 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. Forna won the 2014 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (fiction). Forna was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to literature. Forna is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, sits on the advisory committee for the Royal Literary Fund and the Caine Prize for African Writing, has been a judge on several high-profile prize panels, including the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and continues to champion the work of up-and-coming diverse authors. In March 2019, Forna's Happiness was shortlisted for the European Literature Prize, and in April 2019 was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) Ondaatje Prize and for the Jhalak Prize