# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hilary-mckay
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:33:22.917Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hilary-mckay"
name: "Hilary McKay"
slug: "hilary-mckay"
description: "Hilary McKay is a British writer of children's books. For her first novel, The Exiles, she won the 1992 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers."
tagline: "English children's writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-06-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.93
  momentum:             6.346153846153845
  historical:           7.20936
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2415311/"
    handle:    "nm2415311"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.hilarymckay.co.uk/"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4f1ee637-ed1b-45bf-9a6d-0882823b6567"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "هيلاري مكاي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "هيلارى مكاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_McKay"
    title: "Hilary McKay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_McKay"
    title: "Hilary McKay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_McKay"
    title: "Hilary McKay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_McKay"
    title: "Hilary McKay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_McKay"
    title: "Hilary McKay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q165801"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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