# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lygia-bojunga-nunes
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:07:56.384Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lygia-bojunga-nunes"
name: "Lygia Bojunga Nunes"
slug: "lygia-bojunga-nunes"
description: "Lygia Bojunga is a Brazilian writer of children's books under the name Lygia Bojunga Nunes. She is one of four people to win the two major international awards: for \"lasting contribution to children's literature\", she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1982. For her career contribution to \"children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense\" she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2004."
tagline: "Brazilian children's writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lygia_bojunga.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-08-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.11
  momentum:             9.210902092258024
  historical:           14.257096
  currentAttention:     35.61253561253562
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.casalygiabojunga.com.br"
sources:
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    title: "Ліжія Божунга"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ليجيا بوجونجا نونيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ليجيا بوجونجا نونيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygia_Bojunga_Nunes"
    title: "Lygia Bojunga Nunes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygia_Bojunga_Nunes"
    title: "Lygia Bojunga Nunes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygia_Bojunga_Nunes"
    title: "Lygia Bojunga Nunes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygia_Bojunga_Nunes"
    title: "Lygia Bojunga Nunes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygia_Bojunga_Nunes"
    title: "Lygia Bojunga Nunes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygia_Bojunga_Nunes"
    title: "Lygia Bojunga Nunes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygia_Bojunga_Nunes"
    title: "Lygia Bojunga Nunes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%91%D7%95%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%94_%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%A1"
    title: "ליג'יה בויונגה נונס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygia_Bojunga"
    title: "Lygia Bojunga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygia_Bojunga_Nunes"
    title: "Lygia Bojunga Nunes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygia_Bojunga"
    title: "Lygia Bojunga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygia_Bojunga"
    title: "Lygia Bojunga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B6%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%B6%D0%B8%D1%8F"
    title: "Божунга, Лижия"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lygia Bojunga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114706"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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