Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna, born in 1965 in Bellshill, Scotland, to a Scottish mother and Sierra Leonean father, is a British-Sierra Leonean author whose works explore themes of war, memory, and trauma. Prizes. Her notable novels include The Memory of Love (2010, Commonwealth Writers' Prize), The Hired Man (2013), Happiness (2018), and her memoir The Devil That Danced on the Water (2002); she has received the Windham–Campbell Prize (2014) and OBE (2017).Aminatta Forna official site, International Literature Festival Berlin