# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marjorie-van-heerden
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:41:42.028Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marjorie-van-heerden"
name: "Marjorie van Heerden"
slug: "marjorie-van-heerden"
description: "Marjorie Hope van Heerden is a South African writer and illustrator of children's books. Since the publication of her first children's picture book in 1983, van Heerden has been published as an illustrator or writer/illustrator in 33 languages in Africa, Britain, Europe, Asia, Canada and the USA."
tagline: "South African illustrator and writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-10-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           34.35
  momentum:             0.930232558139535
  historical:           5.068358666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_van_Heerden"
    title: "Marjorie van Heerden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%89_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "مارچورى ڤان هيردين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_van_Heerden"
    title: "Marjorie van Heerden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_van_Heerden"
    title: "Marjorie van Heerden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_van_Heerden"
    title: "Marjorie van Heerden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_van_Heerden"
    title: "Marjorie van Heerden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20982056"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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