# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colleen-higgs
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:31:34.882Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/colleen-higgs"
name: "Colleen Higgs"
slug: "colleen-higgs"
description: "Colleen Higgs is a South African writer and publisher. As a writer, she has published poems and stories in literary magazines in South Africa since 1990. As a publisher, she is both renowned and respected as the founder of independent publishing house Modjaji Books."
tagline: "South African writer and publisher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colleen_Higgs_Author_Publisher.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.85
  momentum:             4.571428571428572
  historical:           5.068502666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_Higgs"
    title: "Colleen Higgs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%BA%D8%B2"
    title: "كولين هيغز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_Higgs"
    title: "Colleen Higgs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Colleen_Higgs"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_Higgs"
    title: "Colleen Higgs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Colleen_Higgs"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5146258"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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