Aminatta Forna
Autore di The Memory of Love
Sull'Autore
Opere di Aminatta Forna
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Opere correlate
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Collaboratore — 90 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1964
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
London, England, UK
Sierra Leone
California, USA - Istruzione
- University College London|Law
University of California, Berkeley|Harkness Fellow - Attività lavorative
- writer
documentary maker
professor of creative writing - Relazioni
- Westcott, Scott (husband)
- Organizzazioni
- Royal National Theatre|Board Member
Man Booker International Prize|Judge
Bath Spa University - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (2014)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (2017)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature - Breve biografia
- Aminatta Forna was born in Scotland, but her family moved to Sierra Leone when she was six months old. Her father, Mohamed Forna, was a physician who became involved in politics. He was imprisoned between 1970 and 1973 and declared an Amnesty Prisoner of Conscience. In 1975, when Aminatta was 11, he was hanged for treason. She later wrote a memoir about her childhood and the conspiracy around her father called [The Devil that Danced on the Water]. She was educated in London and Berkeley, worked for the BBC as a reporter and documentary maker, and published her first book in 2003. She is now a professor and writer.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 14
- Opere correlate
- 7
- Utenti
- 2,094
- Popolarità
- #12,290
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 144
- ISBN
- 102
- Lingue
- 12
- Preferito da
- 9