Aminatta Forna
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Aminatta Forna

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Aminatta Forna is a novelist, memoirist and essayist. Her novels are Happiness, The Hired Man, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones. In 2002 she published an investigative memoir of her dissident father and Sierra Leone, The Devil that Danced on the Water. The Window Seat, an essay collection, was published by Grove Press in 2021. Rift, from Origin to Horizon tells the story of the cradle of mankind, East African Rift System, its nature and ecology..

She is the winner of a Windham Campbell Award from Yale University and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and has been a finalist for, among others, the Neustadt Prize, the Women's Prize, the Baillie Gifford Prizeze, the IMPAC Award and Ondaatje Prize. Aminatta is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was made OBE in the Queen’s 2017 New Year’s Honours list. 
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