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Aminatta Forna

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Glasgow, The United Kingdom

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Aminatta’s books have been translated into eighteen languages. Her essays have appeared in Freeman’s, Granta, The Guardian, LitHub, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The Observer and Vogue. She has written stories for BBC radio and written and presented television documentaries including “The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu” (BBC Television, 2009) and “Girl Rising” (CNN, 2013).

Aminatta is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the Folio Academy. She has acted as judge for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Bailey Prize for Women’s Fiction, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, the Caine Prize and the International Man Booker Prize.

In 2003 Aminatta established the Rogbonko Project to build a school in a village in Sierra ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 15,603 ratings · 2,237 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Memory of Love 3.93 avg rating — 4,772 ratings — published 2010 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Happiness 3.86 avg rating — 4,332 ratings — published 2018 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hired Man 3.93 avg rating — 3,750 ratings — published 2013 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancestor Stones 3.79 avg rating — 1,057 ratings — published 2006 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest 4.06 avg rating — 958 ratings — published 2002 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion 4.28 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Angel of Mexico City 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“If you want to know a country, read its writers.”
― Aminatta Forna

tags: literature, place

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“All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.”
― Aminatta Forna, The Memory of Love

tags: liars

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“The hollowness in his chest, the tense yearning, the loneliness he braces against, every morning until he can immerse himself in work and forget. Not love. Something else, something with a power that endures. Not love, but a memory of love.”
― Aminatta Forna, The Memory of Love

tags: love, memory

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What should be our April 'Read Around the World' Group Read? (Africa)

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Ghana)

18 votes 24.3%

The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing (South Africa)

10 votes 13.5%

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta (Nigeria)

9 votes 12.2%

City of Saints & Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson (Kenya)

8 votes 10.8%

Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatema Mernissi (Morocco)

7 votes 9.5%

October by Zoë Wicomb (South Africa)

5 votes 6.8%

Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopia)

4 votes 5.4%

Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin (Rwanda)

4 votes 5.4%

Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption by Katie J. Davis (Uganda)

3 votes 4.1%

Scarlet Song by Mariama Bâ (Senegal)

3 votes 4.1%

The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone)

2 votes 2.7%

Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela (Sudan)

1 vote 1.4%

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