# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tope-folarin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:33:47.428Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tope-folarin"
name: "Tope Folarin"
slug: "tope-folarin"
description: "Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer and executive director of the Institute for Policy Studies. He won the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story \"Miracle\". In April 2014 he was named in the Hay Festival's Africa39 project as one of the 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with the potential and the talent to define the trends of the region. His story \"Genesis\" was shortlisted for the 2016 Caine Prize."
tagline: "Nigerian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tope_Folarin_0289.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1982"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.944745333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://topefolarin.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Tope Folarin"
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    title: "Tope Folarin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tope_Folarin"
    title: "Tope Folarin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tope_Folarin"
    title: "Tope Folarin"
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  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tope_Folarin"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16238460"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump