# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jane-gardam
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:19:36.637Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jane-gardam"
name: "Jane Gardam"
slug: "jane-gardam"
description: "Jane Mary Gardam was an English writer of children's and adult fiction and literary critic. She also penned reviews for The Spectator and The Telegraph and wrote for BBC Radio. She lived in Kent, Wimbledon and Yorkshire. She won numerous literary awards, including the Whitbread Award twice. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2005."
tagline: "British novelist and children's writer (1928–2025)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/Jane_Gardam.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1928-07-11"
deathDate: "2025-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.20061733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0306597/"
    handle:    "nm0306597"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jane Gardam"
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    title: "Jane Gardam"
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    title: "Ջեյն Գարդեմ"
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    title: "Гардем, Джейн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "జేన్ మేరీ గార్డమ్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump