# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fiona-kidman
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:49:54.121Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fiona-kidman"
name: "Fiona Kidman"
slug: "fiona-kidman"
description: "Dame Fiona Judith Kidman is a New Zealand novelist, poet, scriptwriter and short story writer. She grew up in Northland, and worked as a librarian and a freelance journalist early in her career. She began writing novels in the late 1970s, with her works often featuring young women subverting society's expectations, inspired by her involvement in the women's liberation movement. Her first novel, A Breed of Women (1979), caused controversy for this reason but became a bestseller in New Zealand. Over the course of her career, Kidman has written eleven novels, seven short-story collections, two volumes of her memoirs and six collections of poetry. Her works explore women's lives and issues of social justice, and often feature historical settings."
tagline: "New Zealand writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fiona_Kidman_2024_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-03-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.2
  momentum:             17.50980392156863
  historical:           5.944817333333334
  currentAttention:     84.69945355191257
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4279597/"
    handle:    "nm4279597"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.fionakidman.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Kidman"
    title: "Fiona Kidman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "فيونا كيدمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Kidman"
    title: "Fiona Kidman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Kidman"
    title: "Fiona Kidman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Kidman"
    title: "Fiona Kidman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Kidman"
    title: "Fiona Kidman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3072714"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4770715"
    title: "Fiona Kidman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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