# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kamau-brathwaite
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:42:22.372Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kamau-brathwaite"
name: "Kamau Brathwaite"
slug: "kamau-brathwaite"
description: "Edward Kamau Brathwaite, was a Barbadian poet and academic, widely considered one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon. Formerly a professor of Comparative Literature at New York University, Brathwaite was the 2006 International Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, for his volume of poetry Born to Slow Horses."
tagline: "Barbadian poet (1930–2020)"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1930-05-11"
deathDate: "2020-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.625550660792951
  historical:           13.638916
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "Kamau Brathwaite"
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    title: "Kamau Brathwaite"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamau_Braithwaite"
    title: "Kamau Braithwaite"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamau_Brathwaite"
    title: "Kamau Brathwaite"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kamau Brathwaite"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edward Kamau Brathwaite"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edward Kamau Brathwaite"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kamau Brathwaite"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump