# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/idza-luhumyo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:24:43.521Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/idza-luhumyo"
name: "Idza Luhumyo"
slug: "idza-luhumyo"
description: "Idza Luhumyo is a Kenyan short story writer, whose work explores Kenyan coastal identities. In July 2020, Luhumyo was announced as the inaugural recipient of the Margaret Busby New Daughters of Africa Award. She was the winner of the 2021 Short Story Day Africa Prize with her story \"Five Years Next Sunday\", which also won the 2022 Caine Prize."
tagline: "Kenyan short story writer (born 1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Idza_Luhumyo%2C_2023-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1993"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.48
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.602988
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Idza Luhumyo"
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    title: "Idza Luhumyo"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idza_Luhumyo"
    title: "Idza Luhumyo"
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  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Idza_Luhumyo"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump