# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gisele-hountondji
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:54:56.269Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gisele-hountondji"
name: "Gisèle Hountondji"
slug: "gisele-hountondji"
description: "Gisèle Hountondji is a writer, interpreter, and translator from Benin. She is considered the first Beninese woman writer. Her 1986 autobiographical novel Une citronnelle dans la neige recounts her often painful years as a student in Europe, particularly in Paris."
tagline: "A Beninese writer, translator, and interpreter"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-06-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           34.74
  momentum:             3.333333333333333
  historical:           5.068106666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://guw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis%C3%A8le_Hountondji"
    title: "Gisèle Hountondji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis%C3%A8le_Hountondji"
    title: "Gisèle Hountondji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis%C3%A8le_Hountondji"
    title: "Gisèle Hountondji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://guw.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gis%C3%A8le_Hountondji"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gis%C3%A8le_Hountondji"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gis%C3%A8le_Hountondji"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66224391"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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