# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sefi-atta
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:35:15.512Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sefi-atta"
name: "Sefi Atta"
slug: "sefi-atta"
description: "Sefi Atta is a Nigerian-American novelist, short-story writer, playwright and screenwriter. Her books have been translated into many languages, her radio plays have been broadcast by the BBC, and her stage plays have been performed internationally.\nAwards she has received include the 2006 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa and the 2009 Noma Award for Publishing in Africa."
tagline: "Nigerian author and playwright"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sefi_Atta_2021.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1964-01-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.72
  momentum:             0.2105263157894737
  historical:           19.813968
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/sefi_atta"
    handle:    "sefi_atta"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://sefiatta.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "صفى عطا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Сэфі Ата"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Сэфі Ата"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sefi Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefi_Atta"
    title: "Sefi Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefi_Atta"
    title: "Sefi Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefi_Atta"
    title: "Sefi Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefi_Atta"
    title: "Sefi Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefi_Atta"
    title: "Sefi Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefi_Atta"
    title: "Sefi Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Սեֆի Ատտա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sefi Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sefi Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "सेफी अट्टा"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefi_Atta"
    title: "Sefi Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefi_Atta"
    title: "Sefi Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefi_Atta"
    title: "Sefi Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Атта, Сефи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sefi Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sefi Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%81%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%B9%D8%A7"
    title: "سیفی اٹا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sefi Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefi_Atta"
    title: "Sefi Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sefi_Atta"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sefi_Atta"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q461690"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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