# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louise-welsh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:25:46.546Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louise-welsh"
name: "Louise Welsh"
slug: "louise-welsh"
description: "Louise Welsh is an English-born author of short stories and psychological thrillers, resident in Glasgow, Scotland. She has also written three plays, an opera, edited volumes of prose and poetry, and contributed to journals and anthologies. In 2004, she received the Corine Literature Prize."
tagline: "British writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LouiseWelsh2019.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1965-02-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.84
  momentum:             0.4421326397919376
  historical:           8.762241333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.louisewelsh.com/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B2_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B2%D9%8A"
    title: "لويز ويلزي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لويز ويلزى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Welsh"
    title: "Louise Welsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Welsh"
    title: "Louise Welsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Welsh"
    title: "Louise Welsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Welsh"
    title: "Louise Welsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Welsh"
    title: "Louise Welsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%88%2C_%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0"
    title: "Уэлш, Луиза"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%88"
    title: "Луиз Велш"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q447658"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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