# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martha-mvungi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:44:50.097Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martha-mvungi"
name: "Martha Mvungi"
slug: "martha-mvungi"
description: "Martha Mlagala Mvungi was a Tanzanian novelist, short-story writer, academic and teacher. She wrote in both Kiswahili and English."
tagline: "Tanzanian writer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Portrait_of_Martha_Mvungi.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-01-19"
deathDate: "2017-06-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.94
  momentum:             7.272727272727273
  historical:           7.468718666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Mvungi"
    title: "Martha Mvungi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Mvungi"
    title: "Martha Mvungi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://guw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Mvungi"
    title: "Martha Mvungi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Mvungi"
    title: "Martha Mvungi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Mvungi"
    title: "Martha Mvungi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B2%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0"
    title: "Мвунги, Марта"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Mvungi"
    title: "Martha Mvungi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B2%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%96"
    title: "Марта Мвунгі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%DA%BE%D8%A7_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%8C"
    title: "مارتھا موونگی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6774504"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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