# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-adair
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:28:50.179Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-adair"
name: "Barbara Adair"
slug: "barbara-adair"
description: "Barbara Adair is a South African writer. Her 2004 novel, In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot, was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Literary Award, and the novel END was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize. Based in Johannesburg, she also lectures on human rights law."
tagline: "South African writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barbara_Adair.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           35.23
  momentum:             5.454545454545455
  historical:           4.868178666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Barbara Adair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Adair"
    title: "Barbara Adair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Adair"
    title: "Barbara Adair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barbara_Adair"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Adair"
    title: "Barbara Adair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Adair"
    title: "Barbara Adair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27909220"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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