Global Dialogues

Aminatta Forna is an award-winning author and director of the Lannan Center at Georgetown University. Her books—the novels Happiness (2018), The Hired Man (2013), The Memory of Love (2010), and Ancestor Stones (2006); a memoir, The Devil that Danced on the Water (2002); and an essay collection, The Window Seat (2021)—have been translated into 22 languages. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she has received the Windham Campbell Award from Yale University and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award 2011, among many other accolades. Her essays have appeared in The Guardian, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, and more.