Great Writers Inspire at Home: Aminatta Forna
Windham-Campbell-winning author Aminatta Forna was born in Scotland, and raised in Sierra Leone and Britain. Her Commonwealth Writers’ Prize-winning novel, The Memory of Love (2010), set in post-war Sierra Leone, will form the basis of the discussion with Ankhi Mukherjee. Readers will be able to participate in a discussion about their experiences of reading the novel.
Date: 8 June 2017, 17:00
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Seminar Room, 3rd Floor
Speakers: Aminatta Forna, Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Organisers: Erica Lombard (University of Oxford), Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: erica.lombard@ell.ox.ac.uk
Host: TORCH (University of Oxford)
Part of: Great Writers Inspire at Home
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Booking required?: Recommended
Booking url: http://www.writersmakeworlds.com/workshops
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Erica Lombard