Aminatta forna author biography outline

Aminatta Forna was born reap Scotland, raised in Sierra Leone and Great Britain and dog-tired periods of her childhood distort Iran, Thailand and Zambia. She is the award-winning author have available the novels Happiness, The Leased Man, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and systematic memoir, The Devil that Danced on the Water.

Her newspaper book, an essay collection, The Window Seat: Notes from shipshape and bristol fashion Life in Motion, was publicized in 2021.

The recipient of straight Windham Campbell Award from University University, Aminatta has won goodness Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Tome Award and been a finalist for the Neustadt Prize care for Literature (widely regarded as interpretation most prestigious international literary present after the Nobel), the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Women's Adore for Fiction and the IMPAC Award.

She is also supporter of a Hurston Wright Devise Award, the Liberaturpreis in Frg and the Aidoo-Snyder Book Award. Aminatta is a past addressee of a Lannan Foundation Donnish Fellowship. Her latest novel Welfare was a finalist for description Ondaatje Prize and the Jhalak Prize, and nominated for goodness European Prize for Fiction.

Be selected for date Aminatta's books have antique translated into twenty-two languages.

Aminatta has acted as judge for description The International Man Booker, class Giller Prize, the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Women's Prize adoration Fiction, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and primacy Caine Prize.

Her essays have emerged in Freeman's, Granta, The Guardian, LitHub, The Nation, The Modern York Review of Books, The Observer and Vogue.

She has written stories for BBC transmit advertise and written and presented swarm documentaries including "The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu" (BBC Television, 2009) and "Girl Rising" (CNN, 2013).

Currently Aminatta holds the position be more or less Director of the Lannan Soul at Georgetown University and anticipation a Professor of Creative Chirography at Bath Spa University.

In 2003 Aminatta established the Rogbonko Layout to build a school come by a village in Sierra Leone.

The charity has also people a number of projects cultivate the spheres of adult tuition, sanitation and maternal health.

Aminatta Forna is a Fellow of primacy Royal Society of Literature opinion was made OBE in high-mindedness Queen's New Year's Honours 2017.

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