Aminatta Forna
Aminatta Forna was born in Scotland and raised in West Africa. Her first book The Devil that Danced on the Water was runner-up for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2003. Her novel Ancestor Stones was winner of the 2008 Hurston Wright Legacy Award, the Liberaturpreis in Germany, was nominated for the International IMPAC Award and selected by the Washington Post as one of the most important books of 2006. In 2007 Vanity Fair named Aminatta as one of Africa’s most promising new writers.
Aminatta’s television credits include the arts documentary Through African Eyes (BBC), the documentary series Africa Unmasked (Channel 4) and in 2009, The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu (BBC). Her journalism has appeared in The Economist, The Sunday Times, The Observer, Vanity Fair and Vogue Magazine.
Titles
The Memory of Love (Bloomsbury 2010)
The Ancestor Stones (Bloomsbury, 2006)
The Devil that Danced on Water (HarperCollins, 2002)
Mother of all Myths (HarperCollins, 1998)