# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerald-murnane
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:39:22.475Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerald-murnane"
name: "Gerald Murnane"
slug: "gerald-murnane"
description: "Gerald Murnane is an Australian novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. He has won acclaim for his distinctive prose and exploration of memory, perception, identity and the Australian landscape, often blurring fiction and autobiography in the process. Murnane has published 14 books between 1974 and 2021, perhaps his best-known being the 1982 novel The Plains."
tagline: "Contemporary Australian novelist (born 1939)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-02-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             22.02702702702703
  historical:           13.02769466666667
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "杰拉尔德·默南"
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    title: "Gerald Murnane"
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    title: "Gerald Murnane"
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    title: "Gerald Murnane"
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    title: "Gerald Murnane"
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    title: "Gerald Murnane"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Murnane"
    title: "Gerald Murnane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジェラルド・マーナン"
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    title: "Gerald Murnane"
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    title: "Gerald Murnane"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump