# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/miriam-tlali
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:30:41.169Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/miriam-tlali"
name: "Miriam Tlali"
slug: "miriam-tlali"
description: "Miriam Tlali was a South African novelist. She was the first black woman in South Africa to publish an English-language novel, Muriel at Metropolitan, in 1975. She was also one of the first to write about Soweto. She also wrote Amandla in 1980 which focuses on the Soweto Uprising in 1976, as well as a collection of short stories called Soweto Stories which was published in 1989. Most of her writing was originally banned by the South African apartheid regime."
tagline: "South African novelist (1933–2017)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1933-11-11"
deathDate: "2017-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.761252446183953
  historical:           13.807308
  currentAttention:     15.87301587301587
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ميريام تلالى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Miriam Tlali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Miriam Tlali"
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    title: "Miriam Tlali"
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    title: "Miriam Tlali"
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    title: "מרים טלאלי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Miriam Tlali"
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  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Tlali"
    title: "Miriam Tlali"
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    title: "Miriam Tlali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Miriam Tlali"
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    title: "Miriam Tlali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Miriam Tlali"
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    title: "Міріам Тлалі"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump