“Just Fade to White, Dear.” Aminatta Forna Remembers Fay Weldon
“She didn’t give a hoot what anyone thought.”
January 10, 2023
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Aminatta Forna
Aminatta Forna is the author of the novels Ancestor Stones, The Memory of Love, and The Hired Man, as well as the memoir The Devil That Danced on the Water, and the essay collection The Window Seat. Forna’s books have been translated into sixteen languages. Her essays have appeared in Granta, The Guardian, The Observer, and Vogue. She is currently the Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University.
Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story: Aminatta Forna on Abdulrazak Gurnah
Remarks From the PEN World Voices Festival opening night
May 17, 2022
By Aminatta Forna
Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac
Aminatta Forna Moves Through a Cultural and Personal History of Sleeplessness
June 9, 2021
By Aminatta Forna
Aminatta Forna Diverges From the Homeschool Lesson Plan with Chinua Achebe
What You Teach When Things Start to Fall Apart
March 26, 2020
By Aminatta Forna
Power Walking
Aminatta Forna on the Streets of London, Freetown, and NYC
September 19, 2018
By Aminatta Forna
The Truth About Fiction vs. Nonfiction
Aminatta Forna, from Reporter to Novelist, and Everything in Between
June 7, 2018
By Aminatta Forna
Wilder Things: Modern Life Among the Foxes and Coyotes
From London to Arlington, Investigating the Urban Wilderness
March 6, 2018
By Aminatta Forna
What If You Gave an Inauguration and Nobody Came?
One Year On, Aminatta Forna Remembers the Empty Streets of Washington
January 19, 2018
By Aminatta Forna
The First Time I Saw Ice Was in the Jungle
Aminatta Forna on an Early Encounter with an Ice-Skating Bear
November 14, 2017
By Aminatta Forna
The Many Ways in Which the Heart Can Break
Aminatta Forna Visits the Museum of Broken Relationships
November 8, 2016
By Aminatta Forna
The Modern and the Medieval Collide: Aminatta Forna on Ebola
“This is not a problem of Africa’s making.”
April 22, 2016
By Aminatta Forna
Where Are the West’s Political Novelists?
Aminatta Forna On the False Binary of Art and Politics
May 6, 2015
By Aminatta Forna
