# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ken-bugul
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:14:01.149Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ken-bugul"
name: "Ken Bugul"
slug: "ken-bugul"
description: "Ken Bugul is the pen name of Senegalese Francophone novelist Mariètou Mbaye Biléoma. In the Wolof language, her pen name means \"one who is unwanted\"."
tagline: "Senegalese writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ken_Bugul_20100328_Salon_du_livre_de_Paris_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.35882133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "كين بوجول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Bugul"
    title: "Ken Bugul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Bugul"
    title: "Ken Bugul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Bugul"
    title: "Ken Bugul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Bugul"
    title: "Ken Bugul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Bugul"
    title: "Ken Bugul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Bugul"
    title: "Ken Bugul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Bugul"
    title: "Ken Bugul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Bugul"
    title: "Ken Bugul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Bugul"
    title: "Ken Bugul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Bugul"
    title: "Ken Bugul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Bugul"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185636"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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