# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karen-lord
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:57:54.983Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karen-lord"
name: "Karen Lord"
slug: "karen-lord"
description: "Karen Lord is a Barbadian writer of speculative fiction. Her first novel, Redemption in Indigo (2010), retells the story \"Ansige Karamba the Glutton\" from Senegalese folklore and her second novel, The Best of All Possible Worlds (2013), is an example of social science fiction. Lord also writes on the sociology of religion."
tagline: "Barbadian novelist and sociologist of religion"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Worldcon_75_in_Helsinki_2017_158.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1968-05-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.48
  momentum:             0.4452054794520549
  historical:           8.077646666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://merumsal.wordpress.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Karen Lord"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karen_Lord"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "كارين لورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارين لورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Karen Lord"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Lord"
    title: "Karen Lord"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Lord"
    title: "Karen Lord"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Lord"
    title: "Karen Lord"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Карен Лорд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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