# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-watson
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:04:04.756Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-watson"
name: "Mary Watson"
slug: "mary-watson"
description: "Mary Watson is a South African author. In 2006 she won the Caine Prize for African Writing and in 2014 was named on the Africa39 list of writers from sub-Saharan Africa aged under 40 with potential and talent to define trends in African literature."
tagline: "South African author"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1975-05-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.44
  momentum:             25
  historical:           7.213248
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%B9%D8%B3%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%B5%D9%86%D9%81%DB%81)"
    title: "میری واٹسن (مصنفہ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Watson"
    title: "Mary Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ماري واتسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Watson_(Autorin)"
    title: "Mary Watson (Autorin)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Watson_(author)"
    title: "Mary Watson (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Watson_(escritora)"
    title: "Mary Watson (escritora)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Watson_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "Mary Watson (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Watson"
    title: "Mary Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6780932"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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