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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 · 16,954 ratings · 2,402 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Memory of Love 3.93 avg rating — 5,039 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 — 4,727 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 — 4,188 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 — 1,114 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 — 1,027 ratings — published 2002 — 23 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 4.20 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 2021 — 4 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
	Mother of All Myths really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1998 — 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
	The Brave Little Robot: & Other Modern Fairy Tales 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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 our April Read Around the World (Africa) book be?

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta - Nigeria

14 votes 28.6%

The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna - Sierra Leone

11 votes 22.4%

Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - Uganda

7 votes 14.3%

Hum If You Don’t Know the Words by Bianca Marais - South Africa

5 votes 10.2%

The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta - Nigeria

4 votes 8.2%

Zoo City by Lauren Beukes - South Africa

3 votes 6.1%

Thirty-One Brothers and Sisters by Reba Paeff Mirsky - Unspecified, likely South Africa

3 votes 6.1%

Efuru by Flora Nwapa - Nigeria

2 votes 4.1%

49 total votes

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