# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melvin-burgess
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:17:20.805Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melvin-burgess"
name: "Melvin Burgess"
slug: "melvin-burgess"
description: "Melvin Burgess is a British writer of children's fiction. He became famous in 1996 with the publication of Junk, about heroin-addicted teenagers on the streets of Bristol. In Britain, Junk became one of the best-known young adult books of the decade. Burgess won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British author. For the 10th anniversary in 2007 it was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite."
tagline: "British children's writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-04-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.75972133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0121326/"
    handle:    "nm0121326"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://melvinburgess.net/"
sources:
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Melvin Burgess"
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    title: "Melvin Burgess"
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    title: "Melvin Burgess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Melvin Burgess"
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    title: "Melvin Burgess"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Melvin Burgess"
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    title: "Melvin Burgess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump