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If you want to know a country, read its writers.

Aminatta Forna

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Aminatta Forna
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 1
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Bellshill
North Lanarkshire
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I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.
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All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.
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The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in extraordinary shape-shifting prose that makes this not just an important novel, but a remarkable read.
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Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
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War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.
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What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
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