Aminatta Forna is the award-winning author ‘The Hired Man’, ‘The Memory of Love’, which was awarded the Commonwealth Prize for “Best Book” in 2011,’Ancestor Stones’, and a memoir ‘The Devil that Danced on the Water’. In March, she was announced as the recipient of the 2014 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize (Fiction). She also serves as Professor for Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and was a Harkness Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

Events participated in:

‘A Citizen From Nowhere’: Join BBC correspondent Kirsty Lang as she talks to Aminatta Forna OBE on being cosmopolitan as they explore the question of whether we choose or are made to become global souls in an era of mass migration, nationalism and as a response to growing populism across the world. (2024)

Is There Such a Thing as American Exceptionalism?: Join Jim Naughtie as he explores America’s historical legacy in the making of the modern world. With Tim Phillips, Aminatta Forna, and Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, as Razia Iqbal and Sir Kieran Prendergast join from abroad. (2021)

Black History Matters: Join Oscar Guardiola-Rivera as he explores race relations in America with author Aminatta Forna, Beyond Conflict’s Tim Phillips, and playwright Bonnie Greer. (2017)

Women on the Frontline: Discover the lives of extraordinary women who have lived their lives on the frontline with Reem Kelani, Valerie Plame Wilson, Aminatta Forna, and Razia Iqbal. (2017)

The Memory of Love: Join Aminatta Forna, whose father was executed during the Sierra Leone’s civil war, as we explore how memory, love, identity and landscape interweave in her latest novel The Memory of Love. Writer and filmmaker James Runcie interviews. (2010)