# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-brunner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:18:59.599Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-brunner"
name: "John Brunner"
slug: "john-brunner"
description: "John Kilian Houston Brunner was a British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel and the BSFA Award the same year. The Jagged Orbit won the BSFA Award in 1970. His first novel, Galactic Storm, was written under the pen-name Gill Hunt when he was seventeen. He did not start writing full-time until 1958, some years after his military service."
tagline: "British author (1934–1995)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/JBrunnerQS.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1934-09-24"
deathDate: "1995-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump