Aminatta Forna
Aminatta Forna
Aminatta Fornais a Scottish writer. She is the author of a memoir, The Devil that Danced on the Water, and three novels: Ancestor Stones, The Memory of Love and The Hired Man. Her novel The Memory of Love was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for "Best Book" in 2011, and was also shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Forna is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and was, until recently, Sterling Brown Distinguished Visiting Professor at Williams...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
filling journalist mapping perhaps plot vague
I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me want to be a journalist - I go off and explore it for a bit, rather than mapping out a plot and then filling in the research.
checking ebay sort
I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.
kinds literal novelist people truths
I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.