# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matt-rees
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:41:26.381Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matt-rees"
name: "Matt Rees"
slug: "matt-rees"
description: "Matthew Beynon Rees is a Welsh novelist and journalist. He is the author of The Palestine Quartet, a series of crime novels about Omar Yussef, a Palestinian sleuth, and of historical novels and thrillers. He is the winner of a Crime Writers' Association Dagger for his crime fiction in the UK and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for fiction in the US."
tagline: "British writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1967"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.87
  momentum:             15.75133689839572
  historical:           7.008748
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.mattbeynonrees.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "مات ريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مات ريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Beynon_Rees"
    title: "Matt Beynon Rees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Rees"
    title: "Matt Rees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Rees"
    title: "Matt Rees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Rees"
    title: "Matt Rees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%82%A4%E3%83%8E%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9"
    title: "マット・ベイノン・リース"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q955586"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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