Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna is a British writer of Scottish and Sierra Leonean ancestry. Her first book was a memoir, The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest (2002). Since then she has written four novels: Ancestor Stones (2006), The Memory of Love (2010), The Hired Man (2013) and Happiness (2018). In 2021 she published a collection of essays, The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Aminatta Forna is the 7,398th most popular writer, the 7,751st most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 763rd most popular British Writer.

Aminatta Forna is a Scottish writer known for her novels that explore themes of war, memory, and the complexities of identity, particularly in relation to her Sierra Leonean heritage. Her notable works include "The Memory of Love," which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and "The Devil That Danced on the Water," a memoir about her father's political activism and execution.