# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/meshack-asare
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:00:26.915Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/meshack-asare"
name: "Meshack Asare"
slug: "meshack-asare"
description: "Meshack Asare is a popular African children's author. He was born in Ghana and currently resides in Degenfeld, Germany. On 15 July 2014, he was announced as a finalist for the prestigious international award, the 2015 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature, which he won on 24 October 2014, becoming the first African to receive the award. The Brassman's Secret was his representative text read by the nominating jury, and the award honors his entire body of work."
tagline: "Ghanaian Author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Meshack_Asare%2C_Kathy_Neustadt%2C_Josh_Hankin%2C_Tess_Hankin%2C_and_Nii_Ayikwei_Parkes_at_Neustadt_banquet.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.85
  momentum:             12.22222222222222
  historical:           5.273254666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshack_Asare"
    title: "Meshack Asare"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%83_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "ميشاك اسارى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshack_Asare"
    title: "Meshack Asare"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Meshack_Asare"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshack_Asare"
    title: "Meshack Asare"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshack_Asare"
    title: "Meshack Asare"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327992"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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