# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-hardy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:49:52.474Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-hardy"
name: "Frank Hardy"
slug: "frank-hardy"
description: "Francis Joseph Hardy, published as Frank J. Hardy and also under the pseudonym Ross Franklyn, was an Australian novelist and writer. He is best known for his 1950 novel Power Without Glory, and for his later political activism. He brought the plight of Aboriginal Australians to international attention with the publication of his book, The Unlucky Australians, in 1968, written during the Gurindji Strike. He ran unsuccessfully for the Australian parliament twice as a Communist Party of Australia candidate."
tagline: "Australian novelist and political activist (1917-1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank-Hardy-1965.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1917-03-21"
deathDate: "1994-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.43
  momentum:             14.61541292845641
  historical:           5.763069333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0362632/"
    handle:    "nm0362632"
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hardy"
    title: "Frank Hardy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A"
    title: "فرانك هاردي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%89"
    title: "فرانك هاردى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hardy"
    title: "Frank Hardy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hardy"
    title: "Frank Hardy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hardy"
    title: "Frank Hardy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5487111"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1060519"
    title: "Frank Hardy"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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