{"id":2061,"date":"2013-01-27T16:01:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T16:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2013-04-29T20:05:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T20:05:59","slug":"writing-for-liberty-aminatta-forna-reads-from-her-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/writing-for-liberty-aminatta-forna-reads-from-her-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing for Liberty: Aminatta Forna reads from her work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/aminatta-forna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2056\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-left: 8px;\" title=\"aminatta-forna\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/aminatta-forna-150x150.jpg\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/aminatta-forna-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/aminatta-forna-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a>May 15th 2013: novelist Aminatta Forna will read her own work and be featured in discussion with literary critic and scholar, Zoe Norridge. \u00a0Aminatta Forna is a British writer of Sierra Leonean and Scottish heritage. She is the author of a memoir,\u00a0<em>The Devil that Danced on the Water<\/em>\u00a0and two novels,\u00a0<em>Ancestor Stones<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Memory of Love<\/em>. She won the 2011 Commonwealth Writer\u2019s Prize for her story\u00a0<em>The Memory of Love<\/em>. \u00a0Zoe Norridge (King&#8217;s College, London), author of\u00a0<em>Perceiving Pain in African Literature<\/em>\u00a0(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), specialises in African literature in English and French, with a specific focus on conflict, pain, memory, testimony, empathy and human rights. \u00a0<strong>\u00a05.30 pm,\u00a0Cavendish Colloquium Room, Faraday Building 1st Floor<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 15th 2013: novelist Aminatta Forna will read her own work and be featured in discussion with literary critic and scholar, Zoe Norridge. \u00a0Aminatta Forna is a British writer of Sierra Leonean and Scottish heritage. She is the author of a memoir,\u00a0The Devil that Danced on the Water\u00a0and two novels,\u00a0Ancestor Stones\u00a0and\u00a0The Memory of Love. She&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/writing-for-liberty-aminatta-forna-reads-from-her-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing for Liberty: Aminatta Forna reads from her work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,20,53,54,13,37,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-events","category-fiction","category-life-writing","category-news","category-trans-scriptions","category-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2134,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}