Aminatta Forna Books in Order

Aminatta Forna is a multifaceted writer and humanitarian whose work has been translated into eighteen languages. Her essays regularly appear in prominent publications such as <i>Freeman’s</i>, <i>Granta</i>, <i>The Guardian</i>, <i>LitHub</i>, <i>The Nation</i>, <i>The New York Review of Books</i>, <i>The Observer</i>, and <i>Vogue</i>. Aminatta has also written and presented television documentaries, including the acclaimed “The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu” (BBC Television, 2009) and “Girl Rising” (CNN, 2013). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the Folio Academy, she has served as a judge for various prestigious literary awards, including the Samuel Johnson Prize and the International Man Booker Prize. Aminatta is the founder of the Rogbonko Project, a charity that has established a school in Sierra Leone and implemented initiatives in adult education, sanitation, and maternal health. Her writing has earned her numerous accolades, including the Windham Campbell Award from Yale University, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award, and the Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize. She was made an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours 2017. Currently, Aminatta holds the position of Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University and Professor of Creative Writing.