# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-selvon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:38:23.830Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-selvon"
name: "Samuel Selvon"
slug: "samuel-selvon"
description: "Samuel Dickson Selvon was a Trinidad-born writer, who moved to London, England, in 1950. His 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners is groundbreaking in its use of creolised English, or \"nation language\", for narrative as well as dialogue."
tagline: "Trinidad and Tobago writer (1923–1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_Selvon%2C_1952_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-05-20"
deathDate: "1994-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.58
  momentum:             0.3883495145631068
  historical:           9.909038666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783613/"
    handle:    "nm0783613"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%DA%A4%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "سامويل سيلڤون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Samuel Selvon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Selvon"
    title: "Sam Selvon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "سام سلون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Selvon"
    title: "Samuel Selvon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Selvon"
    title: "Samuel Selvon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Selvon"
    title: "Sam Selvon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC%D1%8E%D1%8D%D0%BB"
    title: "Селвон, Сэмюэл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Selvon"
    title: "Samuel Selvon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sam_Selvon"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7412589"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1058098"
    title: "Samuel Selvon"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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