On 19 July 1975, 14 senior army and government officials including Brigadier David Lansana, former cabinet minister Dr . Mohamed Sorie Forna, former cabinet minister and journalist Ibrahim Bash-Taqi and Lieutenant Habib Lansana Kamara were executed after they were convicted for attempting a coup to topple president Stevens'government.
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Christopher Hope, writing in " The Independent ", stated " Forna has written a book that is impossible to forget, or to confuse with any other memoir of tyrannical times . " and found it " an obsessive, driven, refreshing book about Africa, despotism and exile ."
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On 19 July 1975, 14 senior army and government officials including Brigadier David Lansana, former cabinet minister Mohamed Sorie Forna ( father of writer Aminatta Forna ), Brigadier General Ibrahim Bash Taqi and Lieutenant Habib Lansana Kamara were executed after being convicted of allegedly attempting a coup to topple president Stevens'government.
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On 19 July 1975, 14 senior army and government officials including Brigadier David Lansana, former cabinet minister Mohamed Sorie Forna ( father of writer Aminatta Forna ), Brigadier General Ibrahim Bash Taqi and Lieutenant Habib Lansana Kamara were executed after being convicted of allegedly attempting a coup to topple president Stevens'government.
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The writers are Loung Ung ( Cambodia ), Edwidge Danticat ( Haiti ), Manjushree Thapa ( Nepal ), Mona Eltahawy ( Egypt ), Maaza Mengiste ( Ethiopia ), Sooni Taraporevala ( India ), Maria Arana ( Peru ), Aminatta Forna ( Sierra Leone ), Zarghuna Kargar ( Afghanistan ).
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LLF 2015 drew over 75, 000 to the halls and grounds of Alhamra Arts Center to hear a mix of Punjabi, Pakistani and international speakers including Romila Thapar, Rahul Singh, Hameed Haroon, Yasmine El Rashidi, Naseeruddin Shah, Joe Sacco, Romesh Gunesekera, Ziauddin Sardar, Osman Samiuddin, Mushtaq Soofi, and Aminatta Forna.
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Of " The Hired Man "'s setting in Croatia, addressing the ethnic cleansing which followed the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, Forna said : " There's a saying : Write about what you know . There is an addition to that : Write about what you want to understand . That's the case with the new book ."
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The other shortlisted books were : " The Devil That Danced On The Water " by Aminatta Forna; " Natasha's Dance " by Orlando Figes; " Dr . Tatiana's Sex Advice To All Creation " by Olivia Judson; " Samuel Pepys : The Unequalled Self " by Claire Tomalin; and " Nelson : Love And Fame " by Edgar Vincent.
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Her second novel, " Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun ", on publication in spring 2016 was endorsed by many other writers, including Bernardine Evaristo ( " Manyika s story about an elderly Nigerian woman is quiet, sophisticated and it expands the canon of contemporary African literature into welcome new territory " ), Aminatta Forna ( " gorgeous and finely crafted . . . Sarah Manyika s novel shows ordinary people at their best.
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Freeman joined the UK-based " Granta " in December 2008, became acting editor in May 2009, and was named editor in October 2009 . While at the magazine, he edited Mary Gaitskill, KenzaburM Le, Rana Dasgupta, Dinaw Mengestu, Peter Carey, Jeanette Winterson, Natsuo Kirino, Victor LaValle, Herta Muller, Daniel Alarcon, Wole Soyinka, Aleksandar Hemon, Salman Rushdie, Yiyun Li, Tony D'Souza, Colum McCann, Ngig ) wa Thiong'o, George Saunders, Marie Darrieussecq, Joshua Ferris, Aminatta Forna, Jim Crace, Richard Russo, Kamila Shamsie, Mo Yan, A . L . Kennedy, Mohsin Hamid, and Chimamanda Adichie.
