# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marian-engel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:26:48.917Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marian-engel"
name: "Marian Engel"
slug: "marian-engel"
description: "Marian Ruth Engel was a Canadian novelist and a founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada. Her most famous and controversial novel was Bear (1976), a tale of erotic love between an archivist and a bear."
tagline: "Canadian writer (1933–1985)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1933-05-24"
deathDate: "1985-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.41
  momentum:             0.6014271151885832
  historical:           8.104106666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Engel"
    title: "Marian Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%84"
    title: "ماريان إنجل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%84"
    title: "ماريان انجل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84"
    title: "ماریان انقل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Engel"
    title: "Marian Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Engel"
    title: "Marian Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Engel"
    title: "Marian Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Engel"
    title: "Marian Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Engel"
    title: "Marian Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273196"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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