# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melina-marchetta
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:24:46.789Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melina-marchetta"
name: "Melina Marchetta"
slug: "melina-marchetta"
description: "Carmelina Marchetta is an Australian writer and teacher. Marchetta is best known as the author of teen novels, Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca and On the Jellicoe Road. She has twice been awarded the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers, in 1993 and 2004. For Jellicoe Road she won the 2009 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association, recognizing the year's best book for young adults."
tagline: "Australian teen writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1965-03-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.4
  momentum:             14.34782608695652
  historical:           9.02286
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/MMarchetta1"
    handle:    "MMarchetta1"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0545551/"
    handle:    "nm0545551"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://melinamarchetta.wordpress.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ميلينا مارتشيتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мелина Маркета"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melina_Marchetta"
    title: "Melina Marchetta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melina_Marchetta"
    title: "Melina Marchetta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melina_Marchetta"
    title: "Melina Marchetta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melina_Marchetta"
    title: "Melina Marchetta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melina_Marchetta"
    title: "Melina Marchetta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://lt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Melina_Mar%C4%8Deta"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3854221"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/93121"
    title: "Melina Marchetta"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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