# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ishmael-beah
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:55:02.741Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ishmael-beah"
name: "Ishmael Beah"
slug: "ishmael-beah"
description: "Ishmael Beah is a Sierra Leonean author and human rights activist who rose to fame with his acclaimed memoir, A Long Way Gone. His novel Radiance of Tomorrow was published in January 2014. His most recent novel Little Family was published in April 2020."
tagline: "Sierra Leonean writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/IshmaelBeahDUES.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1980-11-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.61372133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "IshmaelBeah"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.ishmaelbeah.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Ishmael Beah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump