# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-jose-ferrada
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:47:25.986Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-jose-ferrada"
name: "María José Ferrada"
slug: "maria-jose-ferrada"
description: "María José Ferrada is a journalist and writer from Chile. She has written numerous books for children and young adults in the Spanish language, and her work has been widely translated. She has received multiple awards for her work, including the Premio Academia of the Academia Chilena de la Lengua, and the Literary Prize of the City of Santiago, and her books for children have been published in several countries, including Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Italy and the United States, in addition to Chile. She is currently the editor of Chile para Niños, which is the National Library of Chile's digital resource center for children."
tagline: "Chilean writer and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mar%C3%ADa_Jos%C3%A9_Ferrada.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1977"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.013896
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Jos%C3%A9_Ferrada"
    title: "María José Ferrada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Jos%C3%A9_Ferrada"
    title: "María José Ferrada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Jos%C3%A9_Ferrada"
    title: "María José Ferrada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Jos%C3%A9_Ferrada"
    title: "María José Ferrada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Jos%C3%A9_Ferrada"
    title: "María José Ferrada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42171835"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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