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Aminatta Forna
Aminatta Forna
British Writer
Born: 1964
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A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas. Aminatta Forna
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Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained. Aminatta Forna
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Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they bring me into worlds that I did not previously know. And that, as a writer, is what I try to create. Aminatta Forna
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What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that. Aminatta Forna
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Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative. Aminatta Forna
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I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it. Aminatta Forna
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No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories. Aminatta Forna
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Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman who owns a coffee plantation! When you are talking about a woman writer coming from a hot country, there's a complete assumption that she is writing about her own life. Aminatta Forna
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I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all. Aminatta Forna
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