# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/agnes-agboton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:13:11.522Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/agnes-agboton"
name: "Agnès Agboton"
slug: "agnes-agboton"
description: "Agnès Agboton is a Beninese writer, poet, storyteller, and translator. She currently lives in Spain. She is of Fon descent, and writes in several languages, including Catalan, Spanish, and the Gun language. She has written several books about African food and culture, and is known for her work in transcribing and translating Beninese folk tales and stories for adults and children. In addition, she has published two bilingual collections of poetry in the Gun language and Spanish. She is considered to be a significant figure in Afro-Spanish writing."
tagline: "Beninese writer, poet, storyteller, and translator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Agn%C3%A9s_Agboton_ltk.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.67
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.803456
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Agnès Agboton"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agn%C3%A8s_Agboton"
    title: "Agnès Agboton"
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    title: "Agnès Agboton"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agn%C3%A8s_Agboton"
    title: "Agnès Agboton"
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  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agn%C3%A8s_Agboton"
    title: "Agnès Agboton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fon.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agn%C3%A8s_Agboton"
    title: "Agnès Agboton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agn%C3%A8s_Agboton"
    title: "Agnès Agboton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://guw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agn%C3%A8s_Agboton"
    title: "Agnès Agboton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Agnès Agboton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump