# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jennifer-johnston
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:32:03.077Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jennifer-johnston"
name: "Jennifer Johnston"
slug: "jennifer-johnston"
description: "Jennifer Prudence Johnston was an Irish novelist. She won a number of awards, including the Whitbread Book Award for The Old Jest in 1979 and a Lifetime Achievement from the Irish Book Awards (2012). The Old Jest, a novel about the Irish War of Independence, was later made into a film called The Dawning, starring Anthony Hopkins, produced by Sarah Lawson and directed by Robert Knights."
tagline: "Irish writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jennifer_Johnston_(novelist).png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-01-12"
deathDate: "2025-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.28819466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0426682/"
    handle:    "nm0426682"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "جينيفر جونستين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Дженифър Джонстън"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jennifer Johnston (Schriftstellerin)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Johnston_(novelist)"
    title: "Jennifer Johnston (novelist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jennifer Johnston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Johnston"
    title: "Jennifer Johnston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джонстон, Дженнифер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jennifer Johnston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jennifer Johnston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jennifer Johnston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1569813"
    title: "Jennifer Johnston"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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