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Aminatta Forna is the Director of the Lannan Center and Professor of English at Georgetown University. An award-winning author, her literary works include novels such as Happiness, The Hired Man, The Memory of Love, and Ancestor Stones, alongside the memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water and essay collection The Window Seat. Her writings have been translated into over twenty languages and featured in prestigious publications like The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, and Vogue.
Research Interests: Forna’s work spans creative writing, postcolonial literature, African literature, and gender studies, blending narrative innovation with socio-cultural critique.
Scientific Awards & Honors:
- Windham Campbell Award
- Lannan Fellowship
- Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (2011)
- Hurston Wright Legacy Award
- Liberaturpreis (Germany)
- Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize
- Order of the British Empire (OBE, 2017)
Forna has served as a judge for major literary awards, including the Giller Prize, International Man Booker Prize, and Caine Prize. She has contributed to BBC and CNN documentaries, such as The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu (2009) and Girl Rising (2013), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and member of the Folio Academy.
