Archive: Aminatta Forna
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“Hame”, Orion Magazine Publishes Excerpt of Aminatta Forna’s The Window Seat
Orion Magazine published an excerpt of “Hame”, one of the essays that make up Aminatta Forna’s most recent book, The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion.
Category: Media
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Georgetown Now: A Conversation with Georgetown President John J. DeGioia featuring Aminatta Forna
Conversation between Georgetown President John J. DeGioia and Aminatta Forna.
Category: Past events
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Readings and Talks featuring Valeria Luiselli
Evening with award-winning novelist and essayist, Valeria Luiselli. This event was moderated by Lannan Center Director and author Aminatta Forna and was cosponsored by the Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative.
Categories: Media, Past events
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BBC Radio 4 – Bookclub: Aminatta Forna – The Memory of Love
Aminatta Forna discusses her novel The Memory of Love with James Naughtie and a group of readers at the BBC Radio – 4 Bookclub podcast. The Memory of Love has as its background three decades of unrest and violence in Sierra Leone, Aminatta Forna’s father’s home country and the one where she mostly grew up.
Categories: Media, Past events
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“The Power of your Suffering Is in How You Tell your Story”, Aminatta Forna in PBS NewsHour’s My Humble Opinion
Aminatta Forna spoke about trauma in the “In My Humble Opinion” segment of PBS NewsHour. She responds to what she considers an overuse of the word “trauma”, stressing, instead, people’s ability to shape their own narratives”.
Category: Media
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“Selective Empathy: Stories and the Power of Narrative”, Aminatta Forna on World Literature Today
Aminatta Forna reflects on the power of storytelling, and how it both allows us to understand the worlds of other people, while also reflecting “entire range of views, assumptions, readings and misreadings” about those viewed as “other”.
Category: Media