# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bothayna-el-essa
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:21:52.679Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bothayna-el-essa"
name: "Bothayna El Essa"
slug: "bothayna-el-essa"
description: "Bothayna El Essa is a novelist from Kuwait. A well-known author in modern Arabic literature, her novel The Book Censor's Library was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction in their category for translated literature."
tagline: "Kuwaiti writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bothayna_AlEssa_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1982"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.49
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.835244
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Bothayna_ALEssa"
    handle:    "Bothayna_ALEssa"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%89"
    title: "بثينة العيسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothayna_Al-Essa"
    title: "Bothayna Al-Essa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothayna_El_Essa"
    title: "Bothayna El Essa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C-%D0%95%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0"
    title: "Ботайна аль-Есса"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%89"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6741658"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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