Aminatta Forna

Broschiertes Buch

The Memory of Love

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize

Beschreibung

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2011

Autor

Aminatta 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 awards, including the International Man Booker. She is currently Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. In 2017, she was awarded an OBE.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 34372
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9781408809655
• ISBN-10: 1408809656
• Artikelnr.: 32013658

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'A writer of great talent and courage' Monica Ali