# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/b-wongar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:07:09.882Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/b-wongar"
name: "B. Wongar"
slug: "b-wongar"
description: "Sreten Božić, known by his pen name B. Wongar and Bozic Wongar, was a Serbian writer who lived in Australia. For most of his literary career, the concern of his writing was the condition of Aboriginal people in Australia. His 1978 short story collection, The Track to Bralgu, was released to critical acclaim by the foreign press, who were led to believe by publisher Little Brown that Wongar was of Aboriginal ethnicity. The revelation that Wongar was a Serbian immigrant, as well as inconsistencies in his life story, subsequently led to controversy and allegations of literary hoax and cultural appropriation, particularly in Australia."
tagline: "Australian writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932"
deathDate: "2026-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.147769333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.wongar.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%96%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BC%D0%B1%D1%96%D1%80_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Бірімбір Вонгар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Wongar"
    title: "B. Wongar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Wongar"
    title: "B. Wongar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%2C_%D0%91%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%80"
    title: "Вонгар, Биримбир"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Wongar"
    title: "B. Wongar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_Wongar"
    title: "B Wongar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91._%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Б. Вонгар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4834265"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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