# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colin-greenland
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:15:46.826Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/colin-greenland"
name: "Colin Greenland"
slug: "colin-greenland"
description: "Colin Greenland is a British science fiction writer, whose first story won the second prize in a 1982 Faber & Faber competition. His best-known novel is Take Back Plenty (1990), winner of both major British science fiction awards, the 1990 British SF Association award and the 1991 Arthur C. Clarke Award, as well as being a nominee for the 1992 Philip K. Dick Award for the best original paperback published that year in the United States."
tagline: "British writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colin_Greenland.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-05-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.7
  momentum:             0.3506405933917734
  historical:           8.588593333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1809729/"
    handle:    "nm1809729"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BD_%D2%90%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4"
    title: "Колін Ґрінленд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كولن غرينلاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Колин Грийнланд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Greenland"
    title: "Colin Greenland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Greenland"
    title: "Colin Greenland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Greenland"
    title: "Colin Greenland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Greenland"
    title: "Colin Greenland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Greenland"
    title: "Colin Greenland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89"
    title: "コリン・グリーンランド"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q742918"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1222532"
    title: "Colin Greenland"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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