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Lannan Center PodcastSusan Sarandon and Dr. Dino J. Martins | Writing Climate 2025On Thursday, March 27th, the Lannan Center welcomed actress and activist Susan Sarandon to begin the final night of the center's annual symposium, this year entitled "Writing Climate", with a reading from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. The reading was followed by a conversation with biologist Dr. Dino J. Martins, moderated by author Aminatta Forna. Dr. Dino J. Martins is internationally respected for his evolutionary biology and entomological research, biodiversity conservation work, and natural history writing, and he is widely known as one of Kenya’s leading biological scientists. Dr. Martins graduated with a B.A. in...2025-03-271h 15
Beyond Borders Scotland PodcastA Citizen From Nowhere with Kirsty Lang and Aminatta Forna OBE | Ep 38In this compelling episode, BBC correspondent Kirsty Lang engages with Aminatta Forna OBE in a profound discussion about identity and belonging in today's global landscape. They delve into what shapes us as "global souls" - is it a choice, or are we moulded by forces such as mass migration, rising nationalism, and the surge of populism? This conversation explores the intricate dance between personal identity and global citizenship in an increasingly interconnected world.
Featuring:
Kirsty Lang - BBC Correspondent
Aminatta Forna OBE - Author and Thinker
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Beyond Borders S...2025-01-1552 minBeyond Borders Scotland PodcastIs there such a thing as American exceptionalism? | Ep 32This episode of the Beyond Borders Podcast is a compelling reflection on US politics and the role it plays in the world. Gain insight into thoughts on American politics through the minds of this varied panel of guests, all offering their own unique knowledge on the subject. Listen to Jim Naughtie as he speaks to Tim Phillips, Aminatta Forna and Oscar Guardiola- Rivera, and joined by Razia Iqbal later in the talk, for a detailed discussion on if there is such a thing as American exceptionalism.
Recorded live from the idyllic grounds of Traquair House d...2024-07-2954 min
Slow me up13. Eenvoudig leven met Marijke VanwelkenhuysenVandaag is Marijke Vanwelkenhuysen te gast. Deze Hasseltse voormalige architecte is een bezige bij. Ze houdt van lezen, schrijven, tekenen, wandelen, fietsen, yoga, tuinieren, reizen en muziek. Koken is haar grote passie. Van eenvoudige dingen maakt ze een feestje.Luister en ontdek haar recept voor een vegetarische lunch.----------Deze aflevering gaat over: Hoe je door te oefenen plezier kan hebben in ietsHoe je voluit kan zingen zonder dat iemand het hoortHoe je slechts enkele ingrediënten nodig hebt voor een heerlijke lunch----------Linken:Het Wildplukboek van Ben BrumagneDe...2024-01-1045 min
The Litty PodcastEP. 35 - Literary Futures: Books We Can't Wait to Dive Into in 2024Correction: Karachi meant to say "Crushes" not "Smashes". *facepalm emoji*Books mentioned in this episode:Amyn's picks: The Phoenix Crown by Janie Chang and Kate Quinn Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly Chang The FriendZone Experiment by Zen Cho All of Aminatta Forna's booksKarachi's picks: House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas House Woman by Adorah Nworah Edge of Here by Kelechi Okafor Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan Come and Get It by Kiley ReidFollow us on Twitter @thelittypod and on Instagram @thelitty_podcast.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters...2023-12-301h 01Beyond Borders Scotland PodcastBeyond Borders Scotland Podcast | TrailerWelcome to the Beyond Borders Scotland Podcast where thought-provoking conversations meet the crossroads of culture, conflict, and global issues. Co-hosted by Mark Muller Stuart, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, and Aminatta Forna, this podcast stands as a unique platform for exploring the world's most pressing challenges through the lens of international dialogue and cultural exchange.
Mark Muller Stuart, an experienced international lawyer and conflict resolver, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, a Colombian writer and global affairs educator, and Aminatta Forna, a celebrated writer and director at the Lannan Centre for Poetics and Social Practice, bring their diverse backgrounds and insights to t...2023-11-2110 min
The Seattle Public Library - Author Readings and Library EventsAminatta Forna discusses 'Happiness'London. A fox makes its way across Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide―Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. From this chance encounter, Aminatta Forna's unerring powers of observation show how in the midst of the rush of a great city lie numerous moments of connection. Attila has arrived in London with two tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on trauma, as he has done many times before; and to contact the daughter of friends, his "niece" who hasn't called home in a wh...2023-09-1554 min
New Books in Literary StudiesA Forensic Level of Honesty: Aminatta Forna and Nicole Rizzuto (AV)Aminatta Forna, author of Ancestor Stones (2006), Happiness (2018), and most recently The Window Seat (2021) joins Georgetown prof. Nicole Rizzuto and host Aarthi Vadde for a wide-ranging conversation about reversing the gaze. Born in Sierra Leone, Aminatta is of Scottish and Malian ancestry and grew up around the world. Her mixed upbringing led her to develop a prismatic view of identity and, though she accepts the moniker of “African writer,” she rejects the double-standard of authenticity it implies. She also chafes against the Conradian image of Africa, which infused so many of her own literary encounters with her home continent. In response t...2023-06-1543 min
Novel Dialogue5.6 A Forensic Level of Honesty: Aminatta Forna and Nicole Rizzuto (AV)Aminatta Forna, author of Ancestor Stones (2006), Happiness (2018), and most recently The Window Seat (2021) joins Georgetown prof. Nicole Rizzuto and host Aarthi Vadde for a wide-ranging conversation about reversing the gaze. Born in Sierra Leone, Aminatta is of Scottish and Malian ancestry and grew up around the world. Her mixed upbringing led her to develop a prismatic view of identity and, though she accepts the moniker of “African writer,” she rejects the double-standard of authenticity it implies. She also chafes against the Conradian image of Africa, which infused so many of her own literary encounters with her home continent. In response t...2023-06-1543 min
New Books in LiteratureA Forensic Level of Honesty: Aminatta Forna and Nicole Rizzuto (AV)Aminatta Forna, author of Ancestor Stones (2006), Happiness (2018), and most recently The Window Seat (2021) joins Georgetown prof. Nicole Rizzuto and host Aarthi Vadde for a wide-ranging conversation about reversing the gaze. Born in Sierra Leone, Aminatta is of Scottish and Malian ancestry and grew up around the world. Her mixed upbringing led her to develop a prismatic view of identity and, though she accepts the moniker of “African writer,” she rejects the double-standard of authenticity it implies. She also chafes against the Conradian image of Africa, which infused so many of her own literary encounters with her home continent. In response t...2023-06-1543 min
Hung Up PodcastEpisode 444: Taurus Feat. Lolo☎️ Intro: Dr. William A. Darity, Duke University
Allegra Gliem Dedication
Happy Pride! Thank you Billy Porter
Racism as Distraction: Aminatta Forna Writes about Toni Morrison
This week Lolo dials in to talk about this recent project “Taurus.” LoLo is a Black RnB, Alternative, Pop artist from Atlanta who has been impacting the music scene for the past few years. Forging his own path and creating a name and brand for himself. His album “Taurus” is out and streaming on all music platforms.
Lolo @lolothagod2023-06-0545 min
Listen, Relax and Enjoy the Wonders of Full AudiobookJack London: A BBC Radio Collection: Including The Call of the Wild & The Sea Wolf Audiobook by Jack LondonListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 647880
Title: Jack London: A BBC Radio Collection: Including The Call of the Wild & The Sea Wolf
Author: Jack London
Narrator: Aminatta Forna, Finn Den Hertog, Full Cast , Jack Klaff, Kate Harper, Keith Alexander, Kerry Shale, Robert Jack, Stuart Milligan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 07:00:12
Language: English
Release date: 05-04-23
Publisher: PGRH UK
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure, Classics
Summary:
Jack London was the epitome of the hard-drinking, hard-living novelist. His extraordinary career included spells as an oyster pirate, sailor, hobo, prospector in the Klondike Gold Rush, reporter in the...2023-05-047h 00
Get Latest Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Action & AdventureJack London: A BBC Radio Collection: Including The Call of the Wild & The Sea Wolf by Jack LondonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647880 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jack London: A BBC Radio Collection: Including The Call of the Wild & The Sea Wolf Author: Jack London Narrator: Keith Alexander, Robert Jack, Finn Den Hertog, Aminatta Forna, Jack Klaff, Full Cast, Kate Harper, Stuart Milligan, Kerry Shale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 4, 2023 Genres: Action & Adventure Publisher's Summary: Jack London was the epitome of the hard-drinking, hard-living novelist. His extraordinary career included spells as an oyster pirate, sailor, hobo, prospector in the Klondike Gold Rush, reporter in the Russo-Japanese war and round-the-world yachtsman. A...2023-05-0405 min
The Pawsitive Post in Conversation by Companion Animal PsychologyPets' names: How we choose them, how we use them, and how to change themSend us a textEpisode 5 of The Pawsitive Post in Conversation sees Zazie and Kristi talk about the names we give our pets. We chat about how we choose them, what makes a good name, how we use our pets' names, how to change a pet's name, and whether they know their own and each other's names.As well, we talk about the books the book club is reading right now and our own choices of books we love. (There may be some spoilers in this discussion).Pet cats know their fellow cats...2023-05-0334 min
emociones entre líneas: un podcast de libros23.07.01. Cicatrices narrativas de la guerra en ÁfricaEn el pod del día de hoy, Cicatrices narrativas de la guerra en África, transitaremos por cinco narrativas cuyos escenarios y personajes se desenvolverán en los conflictos armados civiles de Sudán del Sur, Sierra Leona, Ruanda y la revolución etíope de finales de los años 70. En este capítulo visitaremos las siguientes lecturas:
Johnson, Hilde F. South Soudan: the untold story. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018. ISBN: 9781788313780.
Beah, Ishmael. A long way gone. London: Harper Perennial, 2007. ISBN: 9780007247097.
Forna, Aminatta. The memory of Love. London: Bloomsbury, 2011. ISBN: 9788408809655.
Mengiste, Maaza. Beneath the lion´s Gaze. London: Vintage...2023-04-1554 min
Emociones entre líneas: un podcast de libros23.07.01. Cicatrices narrativas de la guerra en ÁfricaEn el pod del día de hoy, Cicatrices narrativas de la guerra en África, transitaremos por cinco narrativas cuyos escenarios y personajes se desenvolverán en los conflictos armados civiles de Sudán del Sur, Sierra Leona, Ruanda y la revolución etíope de finales de los años 70. En este capítulo visitaremos las siguientes lecturas: Johnson, Hilde F. South Soudan: the untold story. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018. ISBN: 9781788313780.Beah, Ishmael. A long way gone. London: Harper Perennial, 2007. ISBN: 9780007247097.Forna, Aminatta. The memory of Love. London: Bloomsbury, 2011. ISBN: 9788408809655.Mengiste, Maaza. Beneath the lion´s Gaze. London: Vintage Books, 2011. IS...2023-04-1554 min
Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsI Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History by Emmanuel IdumaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548493 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History Author: Emmanuel Iduma Narrator: Emeka Emecheta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘A lyrical investigation … both powerful and transcendent’ CHIGOZIE OBIOMA ‘Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting’ AMINATTA FORNA ‘Both epic and intimate’ MARGO JEFFERSON An astonishing search for a missing person, the hidden tragedies of war and the truth of Nigeria’s history. Emmanuel Iduma never met his uncle, his father’s favourite brother and the man for whom he is nam...2023-02-1605 min
Explore New Full Audiobooks in History, AfricaI Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History by Emmanuel IdumaPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548493to listen full audiobooks.
Title: I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History
Author: Emmanuel Iduma
Narrator: Emeka Emecheta
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Release date: February 16, 2023
Genres: Africa
Publisher's Summary:
‘A lyrical investigation … both powerful and transcendent’ CHIGOZIE OBIOMA ‘Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting’ AMINATTA FORNA ‘Both epic and intimate’ MARGO JEFFERSON An astonishing search for a missing person, the hidden tragedies of war and the truth of Nigeria’s history. Emmanuel Iduma never met his uncle, his father’s favourite brother and the man for whom he is named...2023-02-169h 46
Explore New Full Audiobooks in History, AfricaI Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History by Emmanuel IdumaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548493 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History Author: Emmanuel Iduma Narrator: Emeka Emecheta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Genres: Africa Publisher's Summary: ‘A lyrical investigation … both powerful and transcendent’ CHIGOZIE OBIOMA ‘Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting’ AMINATTA FORNA ‘Both epic and intimate’ MARGO JEFFERSON An astonishing search for a missing person, the hidden tragedies of war and the truth of Nigeria’s history. Emmanuel Iduma never met his uncle, his father’s favourite brother and the man for whom he is nam...2023-02-1605 minLannan Center PodcastLaila Lalami | 2022-2023 Readings & TalksOn Tuesday, November 15, 2022, the Lannan Center hosted a reading and conversation with writer Laila Lalami and moderated by Aminatta Forna. Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She is the author of five books, most recently, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America, which was shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Her other books include, The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was on the longlist for the Booker Prize and wa...2022-11-151h 02Lannan Center PodcastA Conversation with Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak GurnahOn Wednesday, September 14, 2022, the Lannan Center presented a special evening featuring Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah. Hosted by Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna. Introduction by Lahra Smith, Director of the African Studies Program.Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most recent novel, AFTERLIVES is forthcoming from Riverhead Books in August 2022. He is the author of nine previous novels, including Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and a finalist for the LA Times Book Award), and Desertion. Born and raised in Zanzibar, he is Professor...2022-09-141h 17
elzazi's mundo8. Pitchaya Sudbanthad: Bangkok Wakes to Rain with Valentina"Books can tell different things to different readers." Valentina, who is an avid reader, currently lives in Bangkok. During this discussion, we discussed the book: Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad, one of the Thai contemporary writers. Books for Vale is a way to get to know other cultures; a way for symbolic and real travelling, meeting "the other" and know yourself better. Therefore, she has a deep connection with plenty of books. Just to name a few: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, The Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, everything by Verne or Jane Austen; furthermore Italian...2022-02-201h 03
Middle Country Public Library PodcastEpisode 210 - Oscar Nominations, NYT Best Sellers, and More Black History Month Book PicksWe've been doing this for 4 years this week! Wow. Thanks for listening...
We have a packed show this week!
Nicole reminds everyone that we have a handy link on our website where you can see our NYT Best Seller lists in our catalog.
NYT Middle Grade Best Seller Book List : http://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/search?/ftlist^bib38%2C1%2C0%2C13/mode=2
NYT Young Adult Best Seller Book List : http://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/search?/ftlist^bib35%2C1%2C0%2C20/mode=2
Sara discusses this year's Academy Award...2022-02-1727 minLannan Center PodcastSpecial Event: Tope Folarin | 2021-2022 Readings & Talks SeriesOn November 30th, 2021, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring author Tope Folarin Introduction by Aminatta Forna.About Tope FolarinTope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, D.C. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. Folarin was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of A Particular Kind of...2021-11-301h 09Lannan Center PodcastAminatta Forna in Conversation with John Freeman I 2021-2022 Readings and Talks SeriesOn November 9th, 2021, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring author Aminatta Forna and editor John Freeman. Introduction by David Gewanter.About Aminatta FornaAminatta Forna was born in Scotland, raised in Sierra Leone and Great Britain and spent periods of her childhood in Iran, Thailand and Zambia. She is the award-winning author of the novels Happiness, The Hired Man, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and a memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water, and most recently the essay collection, The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion...2021-11-091h 08Lannan Center PodcastDouglas Stuart in Conversation with Maureen Corrigan I 2021-2022 Readings and Talks SeriesOn October 26th, 2021, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring Douglas Stuart and Maureen Corrigan. Introduction by Aminatta Forna.About Douglas StuartDouglas Stuart is a Scottish-American author. His debut novel, Shuggie Bain, won the Booker Prize. It is published by Grove Atlantic in the US and Picador in the UK, and is to be translated into thirty-four languages. He wrote Shuggie Bain over a ten year period and is currently at work on his second novel, to be published in 2022. His short stories, Found Wanting, and The Englishman, were published in...2021-10-2658 minLannan Center PodcastAn Evening with Acclaimed Writer Sofi OksanenOn September 21st, 2021, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring Sofi Oksanen. Moderated by Lannan Center Director, Aminatta Forna. Cosponsored by the Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, the Global and Comparative Literature Program, the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, the Women's and Gender Studies Program, and the Women's Center at Georgetown University.About Sofi OksanenSofi Oksanen is a Finnish-Estonian novelist and playwright. She has received numerous prizes for her work, including the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize, the Prix Femina Étranger, the Budapest Grand Prize, the European Bo...2021-09-211h 00
LIVE! From City LightsAminatta Forna in Conversation with Eula BissAminatta Forna in conversation with Eula Biss, discussing her new book, “The Window Seat: Notes From a Life in Motion,” published by Grove Press. This event was originally broadcast via Zoom and hosted by Josiah Luis Alderete.
You can purchase copies of "The Window Seat: Notes From a Life in Motion" in hardcover or paperback directly from City Lights here:
Hardcover - https://citylights.com/new-nonfiction-in-hardcover/window-seat-notes-from-a-life-in-motio/
Paperback - https://citylights.com/belles-lettres-essays/window-seat-notes-from-a-life-in-motio-2/
Aminatta Forna is the author of the novels “Ancestor Stones,” “The Memory of Love,” and “The Hired Man,” as well as the memoir “The Devil That Danced on the Wate...2021-08-2650 min
Always Take Notes#115: Aminatta Forna, novelist and non-fiction writerSimon and Rachel speak with Aminatta Forna, a novelist and non-fiction writer. She is the author of a memoir, “The Devil that Danced on the Water”, about her father—a dissident who was executed in Sierra Leone—as well as several award-winning novels, including “Happiness”, “The Hired Man”, “The Memory of Love” and “Ancestor Stones”. She has recently published “The Window Seat”, a collection of essays. Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages and she is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. We spoke to Aminatta about her early work at the BBC, the similarities between creative non-fiction...2021-08-241h 03
Third Culture AfricansAminatta Forna, Changing the Narrative on Identity, Grief, and Appropriation Aminatta Forna was raised to be a fighter. As a triple minority, she knew from a young age that she would be great, but she would need to work very hard to get what she wanted. This led her to develop an inquisitive and astute mind that questions the things everyone takes for granted. As a writer, she has explored and shared her grief as well as the concept of identity and she talks about the importance of telling ourselves the right narrative. Aminatta has lived a life of change, being...2021-08-2355 min
Film Pro Productivity & SuccessCLOUT CHASERS - Episode 87Clout chasing is an expression that came out of the American rap music industry and in simple terms, a Clout Chaser is someone who does and says things simply for the purpose of becoming more popular. You may not be familiar with the term, but I think you’ll recognise the sort of person that today’s topic defines pretty quickly. For a full transcript of this episode please go to the official website https://www.filmproproductivity.com/ You can find out more about the show on these links.OFFICIAL WEBSITE: https://www.film...2021-07-1817 min
ScotsInUs Podcast from The American Scottish FoundationSpotlight on Scottish literature and book festivalsIn this new episode of the ScotsInUs Podcast from the American-Scottish Foundation we are shining a spotlight on Scottish literature and upcoming book festivals in Scotland.
We are joined in conversation with Vikki Reilly from Publishing Scotland who shares with us news of the upcoming Scottish Books Long Weekend which takes place online June 10 - 13.
We are joined by Caroline Knox and James Knox, Directors of the Boswell Book Festival, taking place this year as a fully online event from June 10 - 16 featuring a program of readings, discussions and workshops from guests including Bill Paterson, A...2021-06-0856 min
For RealHistory's MysteriesThis week Alice and Kim talk books that explore unsolved historical mysteries and share new nonfiction about Black rebellion, nostalgic essays about travel, and more.
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Barack & Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Adapting Heather McGhee’s ‘The Sum of Us’ As Spotify Podcast Series [Deadline...2021-05-2545 min
The Magic of Storytelling, in Your Pocket With Full AudiobookWindow Seat Audiobook by Aminatta FornaListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 497493
Title: Window Seat
Author: Aminatta Forna
Narrator: Aminatta Forna
Format: Unabridged
Length: 08:31:00
Language: English
Release date: 05-18-21
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies
Summary:
Aminatta Forna is one of our most important literary voices, and her novels have won the Windham Campbell Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for best book. In this elegantly rendered and wide-ranging collection of essays, Forna writes intimately about displacement, trauma and memory, love, and how we coexist and encroach on the non-human world.
Movement is a constant here. In...2021-05-188h 31
NerdGang NGOf Betrayal, Love, PTSD and Mental health: MEMORY OF LOVE by AMINATTA FORNAThis episode explores the effects of war and how Africans react to topics surrounding mental health issues using the book Memory of love by AMINATTA FORNA set in 2002 Sierra Leone just after the Civil war. It explores various aspects of love as well. Check out https://t.co/2Q7tAyT0BN?amp=1 for article by Sahelien.com Also check out She writes woman and Mentally aware Nigeria on twitter and IG2021-03-2821 min
A Good ReadAdjoa Andoh & Andy DayActor Adjoa Andoh, Bridgerton's Lady Danbury, and the CBeebies presenter Andy Day share the books that inspire them. Adjoa is full of admiration for the remarkable women in Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna and Andy is fascinated by the transformation that occurs in Dibs in Search of Self: Personality Development in Play Therapy by Virginia M. Axline. Meanwhile, presenter Harriett Gilbert heartily recommends Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me by poet Kate Clanchy.Producer: Sarah GoodmanJoin our Instagram book club: @agoodreadbbc2021-03-2327 minLannan Center PodcastReadings & Talks Featuring Carmen Giménez Smith and José OlivarezOn November 17, 2020, the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Carmen Giménez Smith and José Olivarez. Introduced by Aminatta Forna and moderated by English Department Chair Ricardo Ortíz and Professor Elizabeth Velez. Carmen Giménez Smith is most recently the author of Be Recorder (2020), which was shortlisted for both the National Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award. Her 2013 collection Milk and Filth, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a Professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA.José O...2020-11-171h 00Lannan Center PodcastValeria Luiselli in Conversation with Aminatta Forna | 2020-2021 Readings and Talks SeriesOn October 20, 2020, the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Valeria Luiselli in conversation with Aminatta Forna. Introduced by Lakshmi Krishnan. Valeria Luiselli's recent novel, Lost Children Archive was a finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and long-listed for the 2019 Booker Prize, and has been named a best book of 2019 by Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, Vulture, and Time. Lost Children Archive sits beside Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions, Luiselli’s ground-breaking book-length essay that has become a touchstone text for those looking to facilitate meaningful and informed conversations around the...2020-10-201h 02
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesLive Event: In Conversation with Maaza MengisteTORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
In conversation with Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King.
This event is also part of the North-east Africa Forum at the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford.
Hosted by Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English (English Faculty, University of Oxford). Professor Boehmer is currently the Director for the Oxford Centre for Life Writing (OCLW) based at Wolfson College, and...2020-10-061h 01Lannan Center PodcastSusan Choi in Conversation with Maureen Corrigan | 2020-2021 Readings and Talks SeriesOn September 29, 2020 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Susan Choi in Conversation with Maureen Corrigan. Introduction by Aminatta Forna.Susan Choi is most recently the author of Trust Exercise (2019), which won the National Book Award for fiction, and her first book for children, Camp Tiger (2019). Her first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of th...2020-09-2957 min
Africana WomanEp. 2 Elishibah Msengeti: African Women Role ModelsElishibah Msengeti Poriot @theclassroomoutside (IG) kicks off the Africana Woman podcast with an appropriate conversation about African Women Role Models. She is a deep well of knowledge on the topic.
African Women Role Models is of particular importance to me. I remember being young and being broken hearted because the dolls did not look like me. Representation in the simplest areas count.
I cannot overstate how much impact there is to see yourself in African Women that have forged ahead before us.
Elishibah took us on a jou...2020-09-0150 min
Habitación 101La vuelta al mundo en 80 libros¡Hola a todos! Me temo que el viaje llega a su fin. Hemos vivido muchas cosas este verano, pero ya es hora de hacer las maletas y coger un avión de regreso a casa. Nos llevamos, eso sí, grandes experiencias. Hemos visitado 43 países, en los cinco continentes, aunque hemos hablado de muchos más libros. De hecho, diría que hemos pasado ampliamente los 80 que prometí :pOs dejo un pequeño resumen de todas las paradas de nuestro viaje y, también, de países con los que ampliar la ruta si es que aún os habéis...2020-08-3114 min
Page One164 - POIR 8Talking about two ghost books and artefacts from Page One’s first two outside recordings, Charles Adrian continues his trip down memory (lapse) lane. Books discussed in this episode are featured in Page One 30 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/30-ted-schmitz/), Page One 31 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/31-carly-mclaughlin/) and Page One 32 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/32-miriam-ross/). Another book by Aminatta Forna, Ancestor Stones, is discussed in Page One 138 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season5#/138-jenny-adamthwaite/). Episode image is a detail of a photograph taken by Charles Adrian. 2020-06-0900 minLannan Center Podcast"Power and Language" with Caine Prize Winner Lesley Nneka ArimahOn February 18, 2020, the Lannan Center presented "Power and Language," a special event with Caine Prize winning writer Lesley Nneka Arimah. Welcome: Aminatta Forna (Director of the Lannan Center, Georgetown University). Introduction: Scott Taylor (Director of the African Studies Program, Georgetown University).Lesley Nneka Arimah is the author of “Skinned,” winner of the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing; What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky (2017), her debut short story collection; and “Light,” winner of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa. What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky was chosen for the New York...2020-02-211h 01
The Bittersweet LifeREADING (with Nancy Pearl)Most book-lovers would agree that reading is the best way to travel without leaving the comfort of your favorite armchair. This week, Katy sits down with librarian and world-famous book expert Nancy Pearl to discuss what makes a book a great armchair travel read, as opposed to simply a book set in an unfamiliar place. Listen all the way to the end to hear Nancy’s scandalous and controversial strategy for dealing with the weight of too many books while traveling. Also, discover the one setting Katy avoids when it comes to travel reads. ...2020-01-1317 minLannan Center Podcast“Power and Language”: Juan Gabriel Vásquez in Conversation with Marie AranaOn December 5, 2019, the Lannan Center presented a special event featuring author Juan Gabriel Vásquez. This event was introduced by Aminatta Forna and moderated by Marie Arana.Juan Gabriel Vásquez is the author of numerous novels, including The Shape of the Ruins (2018), which was shortlisted for the 2019 International Man Booker Prize; Reputations (2013), a New York Times Best Book of the Year; and The Sound of Things Falling (2011), a National Bestseller and winner of the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Vásquez’s novels have been published in twenty-five languages worldwide. After sixteen years in Franc...2019-12-051h 02
Kenyon Review Out LoudNonfiction from November-December 2019Nonfiction from David Brooks, Aminatta Forna read by Misha Rai, and Kim Scott2019-11-041h 42Lannan Center PodcastIlya Kaminsky & John James | 2019-2020 Readings and Talks SeriesOn September 24, 2019, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poets Ilya Kaminsky and John James. Introduced by Aminatta Forna. Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Deaf Republic (Graywolf, 2019) and Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo, 2004). He has also co-edited and co-translated many other books, including Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (Harper Collins) and Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva (Alice James Books). His awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Writer’s Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, Lannan Foundation’s Fellowship and the NEA Fellowship. Currently, he holds the Bourne Chair in Poe...2019-10-031h 05
On The RagOn the Rag: Young women are going to save the worldAlex Casey, Leonie Hayden, Michèle A’Court tackle the past month in women, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop. It's been a big month for young women using their voice. Greta Thunberg admonished leaders at the UN for not doing enough for the dying planet, which annoyed brave old media boys who think teens should just stick to doing the dishes. Closer to home, a young woman within the Labour Party detailed allegations of sexual assault from a party staffer, and shone on a light on what appea...2019-10-0300 min
BookclubAminatta Forna - The Memory of LoveAminatta Forna discusses her novel The Memory of Love with James Naughtie and a group of readers. 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.The story deals with two sets of relationships, centering around the University teacher Elias Cole fifty years ago, at the time of unrest, and in the early years of this century after the civil war. In 1969 Elias falls in love at first sight with a colleague’s wife, wh...2019-09-0127 minBookclubOwen Sheers - I Saw A ManOwen Sheers talks about his novel I Saw A Man with James Naughtie and a group of readers at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea.After the sudden loss of his wife, Michael Turner moves from Wales to London to start again. Living on a quiet street in Hampstead, he develops a close bond with the Nelson family next door: Josh, Samantha and their two young daughters.The friendship between Michael and the Nelsons at first seems to offer the prospect of healing, and then one Saturday afternoon in June 2008 Michael steps through the Nelsons’ back do...2019-08-0430 min
On The RagOn the Rag: Wearing our yoga pants into the fires of hellAlex Casey, Leonie Hayden, Michèle A’Court tackle the past month in women, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop. This month on On the Rag, we have a lot of making up to do after skipping out on our July episode. You haven't missed much though, because Brian Tamaki is still screaming about abortion being premeditated murder! As if demonic pagan rituals weren't enough, we also celebrate the mana wahine protecting Ihumātao, the positive changes being made around the sexual assault court process and laugh at the me...2019-08-0200 min
On The RagOn the Rag: Celebrating women's right to choose and also FleabagAlex Casey, Leonie Hayden, Michèle A’Court tackle the past month in women, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop. Rough winds do shake the darling pod of May, but that won't stop the On the Rag team huddling together in the midst of a thunderstorm. Not to get all Gone by Lunchtime on you, but it's been a wild month for people in politics making truly bizarre statements, from Brian Tamaki to Alfred Ngaro, to the New Conservatives and their proposed Minister for Men.There's also the j...2019-06-0500 min
On The RagOn the Rag: Don’t buy your Mum scales for Mother’s DayAlex Casey, Leonie Hayden, Michèle A’Court tackle the past month in women, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop. This month on On the Rag, we look back at the month of April and yes we are very late and we’re very sorry. Mother’s Day is around the corner, and brands are doing the absolute most to make the worst gift suggestions of all time. Farmers is encouraging you to buy 11 different hair removal machines, and Michael Hill wants you to buy your Work Mum a lovely...2019-05-0700 minLannan Center PodcastNikky Finney | 2018-2019 Readings and Talks SeriesOn April 23, 2019, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poet Nikky Finney. Introduced by Aminatta Forna. Nikky Finney is the author of the poetry collections Head Off & Split (TriQuarterly Books, 2011), winner of the 2011 National Book Award; The World Is Round (InnerLight Publishing, 2003); Rice (Sister Vision, 1995); and On Wings Made of Gauze (W. Morrow, 1985). She has been a faculty member at Cave Canem, a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets, and professor for twenty-three years at the University of Kentucky. Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.2019-04-2358 min
Arts & IdeasThe Spirit of a Place: A Free Thinking Royal Society of Literature DiscussionPascale Petit’s collection of poetry, Mama Amazonica, which explores motherhood, illness and pain through the foliage and creatures of the Amazon rainforest, won the 2018 Prize.
Peter Pomerantsev’s winning book in 2016, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible, is a journey into the political and ethical landscape of modern Russia.
In 2013, former Home Secretary Alan Johnson won the Prize with This Boy, a visceral memoir of growing up poor in 1950s and 60s London.
Hisham Matar’s debut novel set within the highly charged political landscape of Libya, In the Country of Men, won in 2007. 2019 Ondaatje Prize...2019-04-171h 12
On The RagOn the Rag: In which January has felt 40,000 years longListen to Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Michèle A’Court tackle the past month in women, news and popular culture, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop. It began with a Gillette razor and it ended with a whole week of New Zealand rape culture under a microscope. January was a rough one for sure, so join us in our extremely hot studio as we try to figure out what in the hell is going on around us. Why give The Roast Busters a voice? Why should a woman be ordered to pay her abu...2019-01-3100 min
Always Take Notes#45: Alexa von Hirschberg, senior commissioning editor, BloomsburyEleanor speaks with Alexa von Hirschberg, a senior commissioning editor at Bloomsbury Publishing. Alexa began her career in 2007 at Canongate Books. In 2008 she joined Bloomsbury as an editorial assistant, working with authors including Colum McCann, Lawrence Norfolk, Margaret Atwood and William Boyd. Today her list includes Kate Tempest, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Aminatta Forna, Alexei Sayle and Laurie Penny.
We spoke about how Alexa found her way through the British publishing landscape, the experience of editing Reni Eddo-Lodge and the demands of writing cover copy for Margaret Atwood.
You can find us online at alwaystakenotes.com, on Twitter @takenotesalways, and on Facebook...2018-12-181h 05
Overthinking ConflictWinter ReflectionsIn this Episode C.D. and Amanda take some time to reflect on the last year and look forward to 2019. This is the longest show notes and link list we've done by about 200%. So we've pulled our 2 call-outs to the top of the list! 1. We are collecting ideas for the 2019 SKill Series. If there are skills you think we should add to the list let us know @overconflict or www.facebook.com/overconflict 2. Happiness by Aminatta Forna is the CoRe Reads holiday book club pick. Read it with us over the holidays. C.D...2018-12-0400 min
The Mr B's BookshopInvasive SpeciesIn May 2018's podcast we look at the intrigues of ecosystems, and the books that delve right in to them. Which fury or winged inhabitants really belong in our cities, and who's to say if they don't? What happened to European rabbits under Henry VIIIs reign and do sea gulls qualify as wilderness? Also featuring an interview with the award-winning novelist Aminatta Forna about her new novel 'Happiness'. Hosted by Jessica Johannesson. Music: 'Fortune's Never Kind' by The Bookshop Band.2018-05-2532 min
PEN America2018 PEN World Voices Festival: Reflections on ViolenceIn his latest novel, Colm Tóibín draws on contemporary proponents of extreme violence — the Boston marathon bomber, ISIS, and a shocking ambush of Irish Protestants during the Troubles — to reimagine the story of ancient Greek murderers. Aminatta Forna’s Happiness similarly draws on the brutal modern wars in Bosnia, Sierra Leone, and Iraq to illuminate a character’s evolving attitude toward individuals traumatized by violence. These two outstanding lyrical authors of fiction talk to John Freeman about how they approach violence in their work.2018-05-021h 30
Let Your Ears Embark on a Adventure with Free AudiobookHappiness Audiobook by Aminatta FornaListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 331658
Title: Happiness
Author: Aminatta Forna
Narrator: Robin Miles
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13:09:00
Language: English
Release date: 04-26-18
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction
Summary:
Waterloo Bridge, London. Two strangers collide. Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a great city, numerous moments of connections span out and interweave, bringing disparate lives together. Attila has arrived in London with two tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on trauma...2018-04-261h 09
Saturday ReviewTina Turner, Let The Sunshine In, Aminatta Forna, Colourising historical photographs, The Woman In WhiteLet The Sunshine In, directed by Claire Denis is a French film starring Juliette Binoche as a divorced Parisienne dealing with love and looking for a relationship that will work for her
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Aminatta Forna's new novel Happiness follows the story of two strangers who bump into each other on Waterloo Bridge in London...2018-04-2152 min
Africa: Stories in the 55Africa: Stories in the 55 - Does trauma define the person? Aminatta Forna's latest novel, Happiness, explores love and lossThe chance meeting of a Ghanaian psychiatrist and an American urban biologist tracking foxes in London sets the pace for Happiness, the latest novel by award-winning writer Aminatta Forna. Does experiencing a traumatic event damage a person forever? Dr. Attila Asare, bucking traditional trauma research, examines his theory partially through flashbacks for the reader, as well as his attention to a case that he is indirectly tied to.2018-04-1019 min
Africa: Stories in the 55Africa: Stories in the 55 - Does trauma define the person? Aminatta Forna's latest novel, Happiness, explores love and lossThe chance meeting of a Ghanaian psychiatrist and an American urban biologist tracking foxes in London sets the pace for Happiness, the latest novel by award-winning writer Aminatta Forna. Does experiencing a traumatic event damage a person forever? Dr. Attila Asare, bucking traditional trauma research, examines his theory partially through flashbacks for the reader, as well as his attention to a case that he is indirectly tied to.
Noted trauma specialist Dr. Attila Asare comes to London for a conference, plans to visit a relative and see an old flame. He is recovering from the recent death of his wife...2018-04-1000 min
Africa: Stories in the 55Does trauma define the person? Aminatta Forna's latest novel, Happiness, explores love and lossThe chance meeting of a Ghanaian psychiatrist and an American urban biologist tracking foxes in London sets the pace for Happiness, the latest novel by award-winning writer Aminatta Forna. Does experiencing a traumatic event damage a person forever? Dr. Attila Asare, bucking traditional trauma research, examines his theory partially through flashbacks for the reader, as well as his attention to a case that he is indirectly tied to. Noted trauma specialist Dr. Attila Asare comes to London for a conference, plans to visit a relative and see an old flame. He is recovering from the recent death...2018-04-1019 min
Little Atoms503 - Aminatta Forna's HappinessAminatta Forna is the author of the novels The Hired Man, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and the memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water. Her books have won multiple prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Book Award, and been shortlisted for many others, among them the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Neustadt Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Dublin International IMPAC Award. In 2014 Forna won the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize, an award from Yale University in honour of an author's body of work. Forna has acted as judge for a number of literary award...2018-04-1036 min
Front RowAminatta Forna, romantic fiction post #MeToo, the Hollywood signPrize-winning author Aminatta Forna on the many different ingredients that make up her new novel, Happiness, a multi-layered story set in modern London, seen from the perspective of those passing through.The Alpha male sweeping a woman off her feet has long been a common trope in romantic fiction but can it survive in a world where the #MeToo movement has transformed the debate around gender politics?The Hollywood sign, on Mount Lee in Los Angeles, is one of the world's most famous cultural icons. The original 45-feet tall sign sat on Hollywood Hills from 1923...2018-04-0331 min
Professional Book NerdsEp. 213: April's Biggest BooksOn today's episode Adam is back in the office from a whole bunch of travels just in time for our April book picks! Join in as Jill and Adam get a little weird talking Zelda, Duck Tales and, of course, the books they're most excited about coming out this month! Books mentioned in this episode Circe by Madeline Miller The Geraldo Show by Geraldo Rivera Noir by Christopher Moore My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris Re...2018-03-2937 minUnlock the Magic of Words with Free AudiobookHappiness Audiobook by Aminatta FornaListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 329621
Title: Happiness
Author: Aminatta Forna
Narrator: Robin Miles
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-06-18
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction
Summary:
From award-winning writer Aminatta Forna, a stunning novel bringing an American scientist and a Ghanaian psychologist together in London in a hunt for a missing boy-and an expansive, subtle tale of loss, hope, love, compassion, culture, and the true meaning of happiness. 'Not since Remains of the Day has an author so skillfully revealed the way history's layers are often invisible to...2018-03-061h 00
Reading WomenEp. 36 | Most Anticipated New Releases of 2018 Pt. 1We're back, bookish friends! With our first regular episode, we chat about some of our most anticipated releases of 2018.
News New theme song—thank you Isaac and Sarah Greene.
The Reading Women Challenge has started!
We redesigned the Reading Women Store.
The 24in48 readathon is January 27-28! Check out the details over on their website.
Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Special thanks to Carley T. and Stephanie W. And be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews.
Find a full version of th...2018-01-2431 min
Reading WomenEp. 36 | Most Anticipated New Releases of 2018 Pt. 1We're back, bookish friends! With our first regular episode, we chat about some of our most anticipated releases of 2018. News New theme song—thank you Isaac and Sarah Greene. The Reading Women Challenge has started! We redesigned the Reading Women Store. The 24in48 readathon is January 27-28! Check out the details over on their website. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Special thanks to Carley T. and Stephanie W. And be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews....2018-01-2431 min
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, ReconciliationAminatta Forna speaks to Catherine GilbertAminatta Forna OBE, author of The Devil that Danced on the Water, talks to Dr Catherine Gilbert about silence, narrative and resilience in Sierra Leone.2017-11-2108 min
Sixth & I LIVESalman Rushdie, Novelist, with Aminatta Forna2017-11-1046 min
Great Writers Inspire at HomeAminatta Forna on writing memory and trauma in The Memory of LoveAminatta Forna gives a reading from her award-winning novel, The Memory of Love (2010), and discusses it with Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee. She talks about the psychology of war and healing after conflict, and about love, betrayal and complicity.2017-08-2559 minGreat Writers Inspire at HomeAminatta Forna on writing memory and trauma in The Memory of LoveAminatta Forna gives a reading from her award-winning novel, The Memory of Love (2010), and discusses it with Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee. She talks about the psychology of war and healing after conflict, and about love, betrayal and complicity.2017-08-2559 min
Houston P. A. hosted by LaurentInprint Margarett Root Brown Reading SeriesRich Levy is the executive director of Inprint and the author of a beautiful book of poetry: "Why Me". Inprint just announced a new spectacular season of readings by some of today's best contemporary authors. All tickets are only $5! The Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series will kick off on September 18 with readings by Nathan Englander & Nicole Krauss. Jennifer Egan & Claire Messud appear on November 6 and Viet Thanh Nguyen will be here on November 13. Next year, Inprint welcomes Jhumpa Lahiri, Paul Auster, Aminatta Forna, Samanta Schweblin, Rigoberto González and Kevin Prufer.And that's not all. Inprint also p...2017-08-2530 minFront RowYevgeny Yevtushenko remembered, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist announcedThe writer Viv Groskop reflects on the life of the Soviet-era poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, best known for his epic work Babi Yar, who died at the weekend aged 84.The shortlist for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction is announced live by judge and novelist Aminatta Forna, who discusses the novels that made it though from the longlist of 16.Pulitzer Prize nominee Rajiv Joseph discusses the European premiere of his award-winning play Guards at the Taj. Taking as its starting point the legends surrounding the building of the Taj Mahal, Joseph's play examines the human price...2017-04-0334 min
Skylight Books Podcast SeriesALEXANDER MAKSIK DISCUSSES HIS NEW NOVEL SHELTER IN PLACE, WITH MARISA SILVERShelter in Place (Europa Editions)
Set in the Pacific Northwest in the jittery, jacked-up early 1990s, Shelter in Place, by one of America’s most thrillingly defiant contemporary authors, is a stylish literary novel about the hereditary nature of mental illness, the fleeting intensity of youth, the obligations of family, and the dramatic consequences of love.
Joseph March, a twenty-one year-old working class kid from Seattle, has just graduated college, has fallen in love with the fiercely independent Tess Wolff, and his future beckons, unencumbered, limitless, magnificent. Joe’s life implodes when he starts...2017-02-1656 min
Discover Top 100 Audiobooks in Nonfiction, World AffairsCity of Thorns Audiobook by Ben RawlencePlease open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.
Title: City of Thorns
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To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the Western media, it is a dangerous no-go area...2016-02-0411h 12
The Literary SalonAminatta Forna - The Literary Salon - January 15Windham Campbell Prize winner Aminatta Forna reads from her new novel The Hired Man.
Recorded live at the glittering Mondrian Hotel in London. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2015-01-3125 minDamian Barr's Literary SalonAminatta Forna - The Literary Salon - January 15Windham Campbell Prize winner Aminatta Forna reads from her new novel The Hired Man.
Recorded live at the glittering Mondrian Hotel in London. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2015-01-3125 minA Good ReadRoger Michell and Aminatta FornaHarriett Gilbert and her guests - Notting Hill film director, Roger Michell and writer, Aminatta Forna - discuss favourite books by Laura Alcoba, Mark Twain and Robert Graves. The Rabbit House by Laura Alcoba
Publisher: Portobello BooksThe Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Publisher: Collins ClassicsGoodbye to All That by Robert Graves
Publisher: PenguinFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2014.2014-06-1027 min
MoAD SFAminatta Forna in Conversation with Sarah Ladipo ManyikaFrom human rights in Africa to the importance of education for girls and boys and now the impact of war and the silence that follows in Croatia; hear from one of contemporary Africa's important and perceptive chroniclers as she joins us to discuss her newest novel, The Hired Man, set in a Croatian town that is still recovering from the indelible effects of war.
Aminatta Forna was raised in Sierra Leone and Britain and now divides her time between London and Sierra Leone. She is the award-winning author of The Memory of Love, The Devil that Danced on the...2013-11-171h 00
Get the Most Popular Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalThe Hired Man Audiobook by Aminatta FornaPlease visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1041 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Hired Man Author: Aminatta Forna Narrator: Mark Leadbetter Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins Language: English Release date: 10-01-13 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 37 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: The new novel from the winner of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, The Hired Man, is a taut, powerful novel of a small town and its dark wartime secrets, unwittingly brought into the light by a family of outsiders. Aminatta Forna has established herself as one of our most perceptive...2013-10-0105 minSaturday ReviewCharlie and the Chocolate Factory, LS LowrySam Mendes' production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been years in the making and had to be juggled with his Skyfall directing duties. Now at last the musical has arrived at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane with Douglas Hodge taking the role of Willy Wonka.Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life at Tate Britain is something of a response to critics in recent years who have suggested that the gallery should show more of the Lowrys it owns. He's a painter who divides art lovers: some say he's an underrated genius who's dismissed because...2013-06-2941 minSaturday ReviewPinter's The Hothouse and The Reluctant FundamentalistJohn Simm and Simon Russell Beale star in a new production of Harold Pinter's The Hothouse at the Trafalgar Studios in London. When Pinter first wrote the play in the fifties, he put it in a drawer and pronounced it useless. Was he wrong?Mira Nair's film The Reluctant Fundamentalist, based on Mohsin Hamid's Booker-nominated novel, stars Riz Ahmed as Changez, who finds his loyalty questioned and torn post 9/11.Terry Eagleton is one of the best-known literary theorists in the world. His new book is How to Read Literature. Will it enhance the reading experience?2013-05-1141 min
Editorial Intelligence PodcastsBritish Council Creative ConnectionsMartin Davidson; Peter York; Esther Freud and Aminatta Forna.
Part of the Names Not Numbers 2013 symposium
www.namesnotnumbers.com2013-03-2434 minSaturday ReviewJoe Wright's Trelawny of the Wells; JM Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus; Richard Gere in ArbitrageJoe Wright is best known as a film director, his work including Pride and Prejudice, Atonement and Anna Karenina. But Trelawny of the Wells at the Donmar Warehouse marks his debut as a theatre director.Richard Gere was Golden Globe-nominated for his role as businessman Robert Miller in Nicholas Jarecki's film Arbitrage, a tense morality tale set in the world of high finance.A boy arrives in a strange country and can find no room to sleep... JM Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus has obvious parallels with the story referenced in its title, but is a re-telling really the...2013-03-0242 minSaturday ReviewThe Hobbit; Quentin Blake exhibition; pantomime damesSarfraz Manzoor and his guests, writers Aminatta Forna and David Benedict and actor Kerry Shale, review the week's cultural highlights. The latest Peter Jackson film is the first in a three part adaptation of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit. Set in Middle Earth 60 years before "The Lord of the Rings", the story follows Bilbo Baggins (Martin Friedman) as he sets out on an epic quest to reclaim stolen dwarf treasure from the dragon Smaug. On the way he clashes swords with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers not to mentioned Gollum.There's a new...2012-12-1541 minA Good ReadMartin Stephen and Augustus Casely-HayfordHarriett Gilbert and her guests, historian, Gus Casely-Hayford and educationalist Martin Stephen discuss books by Aminatta Forna, Dan Vyleta and Thomas Hardy.Gus chooses a fictional account of the fall-out from the conflict in Sierra Leone, Aminatta Forna's "The Memory of Love", which has a natural resonance with Harriett's own choice, "Pavel and I". This is a first novel from Dan Vyleta, set in post-war Berlin.Martin Stephen brings with him “Poems of Thomas Hardy” selected by Claire Tomalin.First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2012.2012-02-2127 min
Get Legally New Releases of Full Audiobooks in Fiction, ContemporaryThe Memory of Love Audiobook by Aminatta FornaPlease open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.
Title: The Memory of Love
Author: Aminatta Forna
Narrator: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Format: Unabridged
Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-11-11
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 26 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
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The Telegraph (UK) calls Aminatta Fornas Commonwealth Writers Prize-winning tale an affecting, passionate and intelligent novel about the redemptive power of love and storytelling. In the aftermath of Sierra Leones 1990s civil war, British psychologist Adrian Lockheart comes to work...2011-10-118h 31Discover a World of Knowledge With Full AudiobookMemory of Love Audiobook by Aminatta FornaListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 336244
Title: Memory of Love
Author: Aminatta Forna
Narrator: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Format: Unabridged
Length: 20:26:00
Language: English
Release date: 09-01-11
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Genres: Fiction & Literature, General
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Sierra Leone: civil war has left an entire population with terrible secrets to keep. In the capital's hospital Kai, a gifted young surgeon, is plagued by demons. Elsewhere in the hospital lies Elias Cole, a university professor who recalls the love that drove him to acts that are far from heroic. As past and present intersect, Kai and Elias are...2011-09-018h 26Saturday Review30/04/2011Aminatta Forna and guests novelist Bidisha, historian Kathryn Hughes and theatre critic David Benedict review the week's cultural highlights.This week sees the release of the new film Thor, the Norse God of thunder and lightening, directed by Kenneth Branagh. The powerful but arrogant warrior Thor, one of the super heroes of the Marvel comic books, is cast out of the fantastic realm of Asgard and sent to live amongst humans on Earth, where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders. Jane Harris's first novel The Observations was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2007...2011-04-3041 min
Greatest Collection of Audiobooks in Radio & TV, Great Interviews - No Catch, Easy and LegallyFresh Air, Aminatta Forna and John Kander Audiobook by Terry GrossListen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go tohttp://audiobookspace.com/freeTitle: Fresh Air, Aminatta Forna and John Kander
Author: Terry Gross
Narrator: Terry Gross
Format: Original Recording
Length: 51 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-26-03
Publisher: WHYY-FM
Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews
Publisher's Summary:
Writer Aminatta Forna and composer John Kander on this edition of Fresh Air. When she was 10 years old, Aminatta Forna's father, a doctor and advocate for democracy in Sierra Leone, was executed for treason. As an adult, Forna returned to Sierra Leone to investigate the circumstances surrounding her father's death. Her memoir is...2003-02-2651 min