Aminatta Forna

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Aminatta Forna (OBE) is a prizewinning novelist, memoirist, and essayist. She is currently Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University and professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University. Her latest novel, Happiness (Grove), will be published in March 2018.

The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion by Aminatta Forna

Summer 2021
Aminatta Forna

New York. Grove Press. 2021. 272 pages. FLIGHT, MOVEMENT FROM place to place, past to present, border-crossings real and philosophical are central to award-winning Sierra Leonean nove...
Happiness by Aminatta Forna

November 2018
Aminatta Forna

New York. Atlantic Monthly Press. 2018. 368 pages. In writing workshops, I caution students against relying on coincidence to drive plot, as events that happen by chance are generally less interesting...
Selective Empathy: Stories and the Power of Narrative

November 2017
Aminatta Forna

Photo: Daniel Tellman / Flickr Societies venerate their storytellers almost as much as the stories. We talk about the wonders that stories can create, the ways they can change t...