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Aminatta Forna (born 1964) is a Scottish-born British writer. She is the author of a memoir, ''The Devil that Danced on the Water'',〔("Aminatta Forna: 'My country had a war. It would be extraordinary not to want to write about that'" ), ''The Independent'', 4 June 2011.〕 and three novels: ''Ancestor Stones'' (2006),〔Renee Montagne, ("'Ancestor Stones:' Life and War in Sierra Leone" ), NPR Books, 2 July 2007.〕 ''The Memory of Love'' (2010) and ''The Hired Man'' (2013).〔(''The Independent'' Bath Literature Festival. )〕〔(''The Hired Man'' ), Aminattaforna.com〕 Her novel ''The Memory of Love'' was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for "Best Book" in 2011,〔(Commonwealth Prize. )〕〔("Aminatta Forna wins Commonwealth Writers' honour" ), BBC News, 22 May 2011.〕 and was also shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.〔(Orange Prize for Fiction 2011 shortlist. )〕 Forna is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and was, until recently, Sterling Brown Distinguished Visiting Professor at Williams College in Massachusetts.〔(Aminatta Forna page at Bloomsbury. )〕〔("Reading Africa" ), Williams.〕 On 7 March 2014, Aminatta Forna was announced as the recipient of the 2014 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (Fiction).〔("Writers from seven countries awarded $150,000 Yale prize" ), Yale News, 7 March 2014.〕〔("Aminatta Forna – Fiction 2014" ), Windham Campbell Prizes.〕〔Richard Lea, ("Eight authors surprised by $150,000 Windham Campbell books prizes" ), theguardian.com, 7 March 2014.〕 In 2015 Forna was part of the judging panel which awarded the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award to Yiyun Li.〔http://www.booktrust.org.uk/prizes/5/2015〕 The finalists for the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature were announced in May 2015.〔http://neustadtprize.org/finalists-for-the-2016-neustadt-international-prize-for-literature/#.VW9PJUarGa8〕〔http://windhamcampbell.org/blog/2015/05/28/aminatta-forna-nominated-neustadt-international-prize〕 The list included Forna and writers, poets and playwrights from around the world. The majority of the finalists were women writers.〔〔http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/finalists-announced-24th-neustadt-international-prize-literature#.VW9PLEarGa8〕 ==Background== Forna was born in Bellshill, Scotland, in 1964 to a Sierra Leonean father, Mohamed Forna, and a Scottish mother, Maureen Christison. When Forna was six months old the family travelled to Sierra Leone, where Mohamed Forna worked as a physician. He later became involved in politics and entered government, only to resign citing a growth in political violence and corruption. Between 1970 and 1973 he was imprisoned and declared an Amnesty Prisoner of Conscience. Mohamed Forna was hanged on charges of treason in 1975.〔Sekou Daouda Bangura, ("34 years after the execution of Mohamed Sorie Fornah and 14 others" ), ''The Patriotic Vanguard'', 21 July 2009.〕〔("Ex-officials on trial for treason in Africa" ), ''Washington Afro-American'', 15 October 1974.〕 The events of Forna's childhood and her investigation into the conspiracy surrounding her father's death are the subject of the memoir ''The Devil that Danced on the Water''.〔("Small Talk: Aminatta Forna – Interview by Anna Metcalfe" ), ''Financial Times'', 26 April 2010.〕 Forna studied law at University College London and was a Harkness Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2013 she assumed a post as Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/weldon-and-hensher-head-bath-spa.html )〕 Between 1989 and 1999 Forna worked for the BBC, both in radio and television, as a reporter and documentary maker in the spheres of arts and politics. She is also known for her Africa documentaries: ''Through African Eyes'' (1995),〔(''Through African Eyes'' ) (videorecording), written and directed by Aminatta Forna; a BBC/RM Arts co-production; Smithsonian Institution Libraries.〕 ''Africa Unmasked'' (2002)〔(''Africa Unmasked: The Black Man's Burden'' ) (2002), BFI.〕 and ''The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu'' (2009).〔(''The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu'', BBC Four. )〕 Forna is also a board member of the Royal National Theatre〔(National Theatre website. )〕 and a judge for The Man Booker International Prize 2013.〔(Aminatta Fora profile ), The Man Booker Prize.〕〔("The Man Booker International Prize 2013 – Judging Panel Announced" ), 2 December 2011.〕 Aminatta Forna is married to the furniture designer Simon Westcott and lives in south-east London.〔Nigel Farndale, ("Aminatta Forna interview: unsilent witness" ), ''The Telegraph'', 24 March 2013.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aminatta Forna」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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