# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simi-bedford
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:05:57.296Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simi-bedford"
name: "Simi Bedford"
slug: "simi-bedford"
description: "Simi Bedford is a Nigerian novelist based in Britain. Her 1991 debut book Yoruba Girl Dancing, an autobiographical novel about a young Nigerian girl who is sent to England to receive a private school education, was well reviewed on publication and was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 abridgement. Her second novel, Not With Silver, was published in 2007."
tagline: "Nigerian novelist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.67
  momentum:             17
  historical:           8.802592
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simi_Bedford"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simi_Bedford"
    title: "Simi Bedford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simi_Bedford"
    title: "Simi Bedford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simi_Bedford"
    title: "Simi Bedford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simi_Bedford"
    title: "Simi Bedford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simi_Bedford"
    title: "Simi Bedford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simi_Bedford"
    title: "Simi Bedford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%8C_%D8%A8%DB%8C%DA%88%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%88"
    title: "سیمی بیڈفورڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simi_Bedford"
    title: "Simi Bedford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simi_bedford"
    title: "Simi bedford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simi_Bedford"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22639290"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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