# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/albert-wendt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:01:34.120Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/albert-wendt"
name: "Albert Wendt"
slug: "albert-wendt"
description: "Albert Tuaopepe Wendt is a Samoan poet and writer who lives in New Zealand. He is one of the most influential writers in Oceania. His notable works include Sons for the Return Home, published in 1973, and Leaves of the Banyan Tree, published in 1979. As an academic he has taught at universities in Samoa, Fiji, Hawaii and New Zealand, and from 1988 to 2008 was the professor of New Zealand literature at the University of Auckland."
tagline: "Contemporary Samoan poet and writer (born 1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Albert_Wendt_ONZ_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-10-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           13.423004
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump