# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marlene-van-niekerk
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:12:37.624Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marlene-van-niekerk"
name: "Marlene van Niekerk"
slug: "marlene-van-niekerk"
description: "Marlene van Niekerk is a South African poet, writer, and academic. She is best known for her novels, the satirical tragicomedy Triomf (1994) and the Hertzog-winning Agaat (2004), which explore themes including the family, the change in power dynamics occasioned by the end of Apartheid, and inequalities of race, gender, and class. Van Niekerk is also a poet. She writes in her native tongue, Afrikaans, and teaches at Stellenbosch University."
tagline: "South African author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marlene_van_Niekerk.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-11-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15.59066200737721
  historical:           12.47966266666667
  currentAttention:     75.98039215686273
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Մառլենա վան Նիկերկ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump