# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christie-watson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:24:39.095Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christie-watson"
name: "Christie Watson"
slug: "christie-watson"
description: "Christie Watson is a British writer and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and worked for more than twenty years as a nurse before becoming an author. She has written eight books: four novels, including her first novel Tiny Sunbirds Far Away (2011), which won the Costa First Novel Award, and four works of non-fiction, including memoir, The Language of Kindness which was a number one Sunday Times Bestseller and spent five months in the Top Ten Bestseller list. Her work has been translated into twenty-three languages, adapted for theatre, and is currently being developed as a television series. Killing Me Softly, her latest novel, will be released March 2026."
tagline: "British author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Christie_Watson_20181206.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1976"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.808892
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "كريستي واتسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كريستى واتسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_Watson"
    title: "Christie Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_Watson"
    title: "Christie Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8"
    title: "Уотсон, Кристи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17403137"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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