# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/diane-awerbuck
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:20:17.720Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/diane-awerbuck"
name: "Diane Awerbuck"
slug: "diane-awerbuck"
description: "Diane Awerbuck is a South African novelist. Her most notable novel, Gardening at Night, won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book, and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. In 2011, her collection of short stories, Cabin Fever, was published by Random House Struik. Her novel, Home Remedies, was published by Random House Struik in August 2012. She was shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2014, and won the Short Story Day Africa competition the same year."
tagline: "South African novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rachel_Zadok_and_Diane_Awerbuck.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1974-04-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.402304
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Diane Awerbuck"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump