# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/murray-bail
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:04:06.786Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/murray-bail"
name: "Murray Bail"
slug: "murray-bail"
description: "Murray Bail is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction. In 1980 he shared the Age Book of the Year award for his novel Homesickness."
tagline: "Australian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Murray_Bail_on_Etonnants_Voyageurs.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-09-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.163933333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bail"
    title: "Murray Bail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bail"
    title: "Murray Bail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bail"
    title: "Murray Bail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bail"
    title: "Murray Bail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bail"
    title: "Murray Bail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bail"
    title: "Murray Bail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bail"
    title: "Murray Bail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3506620"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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