# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gabeba-baderoon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:31:30.628Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gabeba-baderoon"
name: "Gabeba Baderoon"
slug: "gabeba-baderoon"
description: "Gabeba Baderoon is a South African poet and academic. She is the 2005 recipient of the Daimler Chrysler Award for South African Poetry. She lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa, and Pennsylvania, US, and serves as an assistant professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African Studies and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. She divides her life between Port Elizabeth and Pennsylvania."
tagline: "South African poet and academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Baderoon2120.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1969-02-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.06
  momentum:             0.6086956521739131
  historical:           6.804392
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Gabeba Baderoon"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabeba_Baderoon"
    title: "Gabeba Baderoon"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabeba_Baderoon"
    title: "Gabeba Baderoon"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabeba_Baderoon"
    title: "Gabeba Baderoon"
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  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabeba_Baderoon"
    title: "Gabeba Baderoon"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabeba_Baderoon"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4937233"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump