Forna, Aminatta

About Forna, Aminatta

Biography (Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin)

Reviews

Palmer, Eustace. “Aminatta Forna and the Concept of Happiness.” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, vol. 6, no. 3, Sep. 2019

Cole, Ernest. “Rereading Violence and Trauma in Post-Conflict Societies: Aminatta Forna’s Happiness.” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, vol. 6, no. 3, Sep. 2019

Interviews

Parssinen, Keija. “The View from Elsewhere: A Conversation with Aminatta Forna.” World Literature Today, vol. 93, no. 3, 2019

Cole, Ernest. “Interview with Aminatta Forna, 16 June 2017.” Journal of the African Literature Association, vol. 11, no. 2, 2017

Criticism

Topper, Ryan. “Trauma and the African Animist Imaginary in Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love and Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s Moses, Citizen, and Me.” English Language Notes, vol. 57, no. 2, Oct. 2019

“Book Forum on Aminatta Forna’s Happiness [Special Section].” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, vol. 6, no. 3, Sep. 2019

Diop, Oumar Chérif. “Happiness, The Wound and the Word: Aminatta Forna Joins the Conversation on Trauma.” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, vol. 6, no. 3, Sep. 2019

Gagiano, Annie. “Recovering and Recovering from an African Past: Four Women’s Quest Narratives.” Journal of Transatlantic Studies, vol. 17, no. 3, Sep. 2019

Cole, Ernest Dominic. “Decentering Anthropocentrism: Human-Animal Relations in Aminatta Forna’s Happiness.” Journal of the African Literature Association, vol. 12, no. 3, 2018

Ng’umbi, Yunusy Castory. “Re-Imagining Family and Gender Roles in Aminatta Forna’s Ancestor Stones.” Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde, vol. 54, no. 2, Jul. 2017 (PDF)

Bastida-Rodríguez, Patricia. “Afropolitan in Their Own Way? Writing and Self-Identification in Aminatta Forna and Chika Unigwe.” European Journal of English Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, Aug. 2017

Imma, Z’étoile. “Rewriting the SLTRC: Masculinities, the Arts of Forgetting, and Intimate Space in Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s Moses, Citizen and Me and Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 48, no. 2, 2017

Spleth, Janice. “The Interplay of Fiction and International Law in Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love.” Journal of the African Literature Association, vol. 8, no. 2, Jan. 2014

Norridge, Zoe. “Ways of Knowing Civil War: Human Rights and the Traction of Complicity in Aminatta Forna’s The Hired Man.” Critical Quarterly, vol. 56, no. 4, Dec. 2014

Gagiano, Annie. “Women Writing Nationhood Differently: Affiliative Critique in Novels by Forna, Atta, and Farah.” Ariel, vol. 44, no. 1, Jan. 2013 (PDF)

Norridge, Zoë. “Sex as Synecdoche: Intimate Languages of Violence in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 43, no. 2, 2012

Works

Autobiography/Life Writing

The Devil that Danced on the Water, a Memoir (2002)

Novels

Happiness (2018)

The Hired Man (2013)

The Memory of Love (2011)

Ancestor Stones (2006)

Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories

The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion (2021)

“Love, Hate and Hypocrisy: The Best Books About Animals and Humans.” The Guardian, 31 Dec. 2018

“Power Walking.” Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2018