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Aminatta Forna

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 twenty languages. Her essays have appeared in Granta, The Guardian, The Observer, and Vogue. She is currently the Director of the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University.


What Fiction Can Reveal About the Fragile Fabric of Our Societies

Aminatta Forna on Over Two Decades of Literary Excavation of Sierra Leone’s Civil War
January 29, 2024  By Aminatta Forna
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