| 词条 | Simi Bedford |
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| name = Simi Bedford | birth_name = Simi Bedford | birth_place = Lagos, Nigeria | occupation = Novelist | alma_mater = Durham University | notableworks = Yoruba Girl Dancing (1991) | children = 3 }}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.[1] BiographyBedford was born in Lagos, Nigeria,[2] to parents who had come there from Sierra Leone.[3] Her great-grandparents were from Nigeria and were rescued from a slave ship.[4] Bedford spent her early years in Lagos, before being sent for her education to Britain,[5] where she attended boarding-school from the age of six.[6] She read Law at Durham University, and subsequently worked in the media, including as a radio presenter and a television researcher.[6] Living in London, she married and raised three children.[5] She is now divorced from her artist husband, Martin Bedford, but they still maintain a friendly relationship, even sharing space together in a house in Devon.[7] Bedford's debut novel Yoruba Girl Dancing is semi-autobiographical, recounting the experience of a Nigerian girl's education in Britain.[8] A five-part abridgement of Yoruba Girl Dancing (by Margaret Busby, read by Adjoa Andoh and produced by David Hunter) was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime in October 1991.[9] Bedford's second novel, Not With Silver (2007), is historical fiction, focusing on mid-18th-century West Africa, slavery and court intrigue.[10] Drawing on its author's own ancestral history, Not With Silver is unique among books about slavery in depicting the lives of people in Africa before they were enslaved.[4] The Spectator′s reviewer concluded: "This relentlessly honest book has no false or sentimental notes, absolutely no prettifying. A black warrior facing unexpected danger is taught to imagine the worst, ‘look the leopard in the eye.’ Simi Bedford does just that. A brave and uncomfortable labour of love."[11] Bibliography
References1. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.afrorepublic.com/2015/08/simi-bedford-yoruba-girl-dancing-and.html|title = Simi Bedford: 'Yoruba Girl Dancing' and 'Not With Silver'|date = 2 August 2015|access-date = 3 February 2016|website = Afro Republic|publisher = |last = |first = }} 2. ^Leese, Peter, [https://books.google.com/books?id=L5kcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=simi+bedford+born+lagos&source=bl&ots=E8wQHz2J2a&sig=Q7KVVoqm1-j8FPzTIS_Ixl1Lvxo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKoc2p2-vPAhWFIcAKHWGBC3kQ6AEIKTAC#v=onepage&q=simi%20bedford%20born%20lagos&f=false Britain Since 1945: Aspects of Identity], Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, p. 50. 3. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WpdhEJWQvk Simi Bedford interview] on Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4, 25 July 2007. YouTube. 4. ^1 {{Cite news|url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6972124.stm|title = Bedford's 'Complete' Slave Picture|last = |first = |date = 3 September 2007|work = BBC News|access-date = 4 February 2016|via = }} 5. ^1 {{Cite book|title = Stories Fly: A Collection of African Fiction Written in Europe and the USA|last = Cooper|first = Brenda|publisher = New Africa Books|year = 2011|isbn = 9780864866080|location = |pages = 60}} 6. ^1 "Simi Bedford", Black British Women Writers. 7. ^{{Cite news|url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/goodlife/11705449/Friends-after-divorce-It-is-possible.-I-should-know.html|title = Divorced? You Can Be Friends With Your Ex. I Should Know.|last = Hodgkinson|first = Liz|date = 20 July 2015|work =The Telegraph|access-date = 3 February 2016|via = }} 8. ^{{Cite book|title = Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria|last = Griswold|first = Wendy|publisher = Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology|year = 2000|isbn = 978-0691058290|location = |pages = 26–27|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=kf7_x8yz430C&lpg=PA26&dq=%22simi%20bedford%22&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=%22simi%20bedford%22&f=false}} 9. ^"Listings", Radio Times, Issue 3539, 23 October 1991, p. 93. 10. ^{{Cite news|url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/not-with-silver-by-simi-bedford-463597.html|title = Not With Silver, by Simi Bedford|last = Dabydeen|first = David|authorlink=David Dabydeen|date = 30 August 2007|work =The Independent|access-date = 3 February 2016|via = }} 11. ^Durrant, Digby, "Pity the oppressed; fear the oppressed", The Spectator, 7 November 2007. External links
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