# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lavie-tidhar
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:12:40.646Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lavie-tidhar"
name: "Lavie Tidhar"
slug: "lavie-tidhar"
description: "Lavie Tidhar is an Israeli-born writer, working across multiple genres. He has lived in the United Kingdom and South Africa for long periods of time, as well as Laos and Vanuatu. As of 2013, Tidhar has lived in London. His novel Osama won the 2012 World Fantasy Award—Novel, beating Stephen King's 11/22/63 and George R. R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons. His novel A Man Lies Dreaming won the £5000 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, for Best British Fiction, in 2015. He won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2017, for Central Station and received the Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation, for The Escapement, in 2022. Maror won the prestigious Deutscher Krimi Preis in 2025 for Best International Crime novel."
tagline: "Israeli writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LavieTidhar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1976-11-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.56
  momentum:             4.883720930232558
  historical:           11.38369733333333
  currentAttention:     27.13178294573643
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/lavietidhar"
    handle:    "lavietidhar"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14849976/"
    handle:    "nm14849976"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://lavietidhar.wordpress.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96_%D0%A2%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Леві Тідгар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%DA%A4%D9%89_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "لاڤى تيدهار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8_%D0%A2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Лави Тидхар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavie_Tidhar"
    title: "Lavie Tidhar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavie_Tidhar"
    title: "Lavie Tidhar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavie_Tidhar"
    title: "Lavie Tidhar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%91%D7%99%D7%90_%D7%AA%D7%93%D7%94%D7%A8"
    title: "לביא תדהר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1v%C3%AD_Tidh%C3%A1r"
    title: "Láví Tidhár"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavie_Tidhar"
    title: "Lavie Tidhar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%89%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ラヴィ・ティドハー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawi_Tidhar"
    title: "Lawi Tidhar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8"
    title: "Тидхар, Леви"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavie_Tidhar"
    title: "Lavie Tidhar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q666468"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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