Search results
6 days ago · Since the debut of her first novel, a wave of YA fantasy novels featuring Black protagonists, such as The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna, Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen, and Blood at the Root by ...
2 days ago · Namina Forna (@namina.forna). 27 Replies. 626 Likes. I became an author because She Who Shall Not Be Named made me realize it was a real job that people with no connections or money could aspire to, and I looked to Neil Gaiman as an example of what could be possible as I built my career. Now this. To say I’m devastated is an understatement. Both authors built worlds that I, a traumatized ...
Jun 28, 2024 · She picked up the young adult fantasy novel, "The Gilded Ones," written by Namina Forna, an author who grew up in Sierra Leone. When she saw the cover, she said to herself, "Black girl magic." ...
- 6 min
Jun 14, 2024 · Namina Forna (@namina.forna). 105 Replies. 81 Likes. Today I learned a new word. Shibboleth, which means a custom, principle, or belief distinguishing a particular class or group of people, especially a long-standing one regarded as outmoded or no longer important. I’ve literally never heard it before. Does anybody use it in their day to day and can give me an example?
Jun 11, 2024 · Namina Forna is a young adult novelist and the author of the New York Times bestselling fantasy YA series The Gilded Ones. Originally from Sierra Leone, West Africa, she moved to the US when she was nine and has been traveling back and forth ever since.
Jun 15, 2024 · Namina Forna (@namina.forna). 10 Replies. 70 Likes. Went to the National Gallery of Art for the first time and… most of the masters and the works highlighted in the gallery are white and then all the museum guards are Black. Unnerving.
4 days ago · Possible Pairings: Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard, The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker, The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna, The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta, And Break the Pretty Kings by Lena Jeong, A Thousand Nights by EK Johnston, Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine, Song of the Six Realms by Judy I ...
