# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dricky-beukes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:30:15.222Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dricky-beukes"
name: "Dricky Beukes"
slug: "dricky-beukes"
description: "Dricky Beukes was a South African writer of Afrikaans novels, short stories and radio dramas. Beukes wrote more than a hundred Afrikaans novels, a large number of short stories and numerous Afrikaans radio dramas, including some extensive pieces for the commercial station Springbok Radio. She died in 1999 in Bellville after a battle with blood cancer. There is a Dricky Beukes Street named after her in Kokrus, Vereeniging."
tagline: "South African writer (1918–1999)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-12-29"
deathDate: "1999-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.16
  momentum:             6.666666666666666
  historical:           6.401476
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dricky_Beukes"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dricky_Beukes"
    title: "Dricky Beukes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dricky_Beukes"
    title: "Dricky Beukes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dricky_Beukes"
    title: "Dricky Beukes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dricky_Beukes"
    title: "Dricky Beukes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dricky_Beukes"
    title: "Dricky Beukes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dricky_Beukes"
    title: "Dricky Beukes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dricky_Beukes"
    title: "Dricky Beukes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5307386"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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