# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:16:33.293Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-smith"
name: "Joan Smith"
slug: "joan-smith"
description: "Joan Alison Smith is an English journalist and novelist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of International PEN and was the Executive Director of Hacked Off."
tagline: "English novelist, journalist and human rights activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joan_Smith_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-08-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.36
  momentum:             4.615384615384617
  historical:           6.424048
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/polblonde"
    handle:    "polblonde"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.politicalblonde.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "جوان سميث (كاتبة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "جوان سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Smith"
    title: "Joan Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Smith"
    title: "Joan Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joan_Smith"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joan_Smith"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ru.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6205457"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump