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Simi Bedford


Born
Lagos, Nigeria
Genre
Fiction


Simi Bedford is a Nigerian novelist based in Britain. Her best-known work is Yoruba Girl Dancing (1991), an autobiographical novel about a young Nigerian girl who is sent to England to receive a private school education.

She read Law at Durham University, and subsequently worked in the media, including as a radio presenter and a television researcher. Living in London, she married and raised three children. She is now divorced from her artist husband, Martin Bedford.

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Average rating: 3.66 · 200 ratings · 28 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors
Yoruba Girl Dancing
3.68 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 1991 — 12 editions
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Not with Silver
3.52 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions
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