# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colin-thiele
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:08:04.861Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/colin-thiele"
name: "Colin Thiele"
slug: "colin-thiele"
description: "Colin Milton Thiele was an Australian author and educator. He was renowned for his award-winning children's fiction, most notably the novels Storm Boy, Blue Fin, the Sun on the Stubble series, and February Dragon. As Vice Principal and Principal of Wattle Park Teachers College and Principal of Murray Park CAE for much of the 1960s and 1970s he had a significant impact on teacher education in South Australia."
tagline: "Australian author (1920–2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colin_Thiele_2000_(cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1920-11-16"
deathDate: "2006-09-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.16
  momentum:             2.873730043541364
  historical:           7.498598666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0857338/"
    handle:    "nm0857338"
sources:
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    title: "Colin Thiele"
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    title: "كولين ثيلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Colin Thiele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Thiele"
    title: "Colin Thiele"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Thiele"
    title: "Colin Thiele"
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  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Thiele"
    title: "Colin Thiele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Thiele"
    title: "Colin Thiele"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B5%2C_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Тиле, Колин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1108703"
    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/94712"
    title: "Colin Thiele"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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