# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/montse-watkins
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:24:21.662Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/montse-watkins"
name: "Montse Watkins"
slug: "montse-watkins"
description: "Montse Watkins was a Spanish translator, fiction writer and essayist, editor and journalist who lived in Japan from 1985 until her death in 2000. It was in this country that she carried out most of her professional activity. She was a correspondent for Spain’s Efe news agency and Avui daily, and El Mundo newspaper contributor. Watkins was well known for her research on the conditions of the nikkei, descendants of the Japanese diaspora who come to Japan in search of work not knowing the language or the culture. She is considered a pioneer in the direct translation into Spanish of Japanese literature. As an editor and translator, she always chose works by deeply engaged authors such as Kenji Miyazawa, Natsume Sōseki, Osamu Dazai and Toson Shimazaki."
tagline: "Spanish journalist (1955-2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Montse_Watkns.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1955-08-27"
deathDate: "2000-11-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.34
  momentum:             5.121986017976887
  historical:           6.340569333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montse_Watkins"
    title: "Montse Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montse_Watkins"
    title: "Montse Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montse_Watkins"
    title: "Montse Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montse_Watkins"
    title: "Montse Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montse_Watkins"
    title: "Montse Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montse_Watkins"
    title: "Montse Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%83%88%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9"
    title: "モンセ・ワトキンス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20742417"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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