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 . 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.
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 . 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. See less
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The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest
A Good Introduction to a Troubled History
by Eric W, Apr 25, 2018
Forna, a journalist and novelist, born in Sierra Leone of a Scottish mother and a Sierra Leoenean father, tells her story, the story of her father's rise to the upper echelons of Sierra Leoenean ... Read More