Lannan Center Readings and Talks Featuring Aminatta Forna
On Tuesday, November 9th at 7:00PM ET, join us for a conversation between writer Aminatta Forna and editor of her new collection The Window Seat, talking about literary collaborations and the relationship between writers and editors.
PLEASE NOTE:
Subject to the Event and Visitor Guidelines, this event is open only to members of the Georgetown University community who can present a Green GU360 Badge at the door. Masks are required. We invite all of those who are not members of the Georgetown University community to watch via the livestream.
Accommodation requests related to a disability should be sent to pg654@georgetown.edu by Friday, November 5th. A good-faith effort will be made to fulfill requests.
About Aminatta Forna
Aminatta 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. Forna is the recipient of a Windham Campbell Award from Yale University, has won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award 2011, a Hurston Wright Legacy Award the Liberaturpreis in Germany and the Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize, and was made OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours 2017. She is currently Director and Lannan Foundation Chair of Poetics of the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University.
About John Freeman
John Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s, a literary annual of new writing, and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing, as well as Tales of Two Americas, an anthology about income inequality in America, and Tales of Two Planets, an anthology of new writing about inequality and the climate crisis globally. He is also the author of two poetry collections, Maps and The Park. His work is translated into more than twenty languages, and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Times. The former editor of Granta, he teaches writing at New York University.
For more information about this and all Lannan Center Readings & Talks, please visit lannan.georgetown.edu.