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    Aminatta Forna, OBE, 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...
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  • Quest is a 2002 book by Aminatta Forna about her childhood and an investigation into the execution of her father, Mohamed Forna. It was serialised as a...
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  • The Hired Man (2013) is a novel by Scottish-Sierra Leonean writer Aminatta Forna about an Englishwoman, Laura, and her two children who renovate a farmhouse...
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  • the crime and film syndicates of Mumbai. Writing for The Guardian, Aminatta Forna said: "Rushdie puts his finger on the nationwide identity crisis in...
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  • The Memory of Love is a 2010 novel by Aminatta Forna about the experiences of three men in Sierra Leone. In 2022, it was included on the "Big Jubilee Read"...
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  • Mengiste (Ethiopia), Sooni Taraporevala (India), Maria Arana (Peru), Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone), Zarghuna Kargar (Afghanistan). The girls' names are...
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  • on his past after he has a stroke. The novel received mixed reviews. Aminatta Forna, writing for the Financial Times, described it as "majestic in scale"...
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  • Busby-Edited Anthology to Feature 200 Female Writers Including Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Bernardine Evaristo, Imbolo Mbue, Warsan Shire, Zadie Smith", Brittle...
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  • Ancestor Stones (2006) is a novel by British writer Aminatta Forna about the experiences of four women in a polygamous family in West Africa. Uzodinma...
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  • past decade". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 7 June 2009. Forna, Aminatta (11 June 2005). "Stranger than fiction". The Guardian. London. Retrieved...
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