# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/imbolo-mbue
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:59:33.878Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/imbolo-mbue"
name: "Imbolo Mbue"
slug: "imbolo-mbue"
description: "Imbolo Mbue is a Cameroonian American novelist and short story writer based in New York City. She is known for her debut novel Behold the Dreamers (2016), which garnered her the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Blue Metropolis Words to Change Award. Her works draw from her own experiences as an immigrant, as well as the experiences of other immigrants."
tagline: "Cameroonian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Imbolo_Mbue_2.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1982"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.968901333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.imbolombue.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Imbolo_Mbue"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88_%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%89"
    title: "ايمبولو مبوى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%9C%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%B5"
    title: "Имболо Мбуе"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolo_Mbue"
    title: "Imbolo Mbue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolo_Mbue"
    title: "Imbolo Mbue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolo_Mbue"
    title: "Imbolo Mbue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolo_Mbue"
    title: "Imbolo Mbue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolo_Mbu"
    title: "Imbolo Mbu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolo_Mbue"
    title: "Imbolo Mbue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolo_Mbue"
    title: "Imbolo Mbue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolo_Mbue"
    title: "Imbolo Mbue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Imbolo_Mbue"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Imbolo_Mbue"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23816363"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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