# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neshani-andreas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:32:01.669Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neshani-andreas"
name: "Neshani Andreas"
slug: "neshani-andreas"
description: "Neshani Andreas was a Namibian writer, who had also worked as a teacher and for the American Peace Corps. She is best known for her novel The Purple Violet of Oshaantu, which made her the first Namibian to be included in Heinemann's African Writers Series. She died at the age of 46, having been diagnosed with lung cancer in early 2010."
tagline: "Namibian writer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/Neshani_Andreas.jpeg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1964"
deathDate: "2011"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.37
  momentum:             25
  historical:           9.686970666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Neshani Andreas"
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    title: "Neshani Andreas"
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    title: "Նեշանի Անդրեաս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Neshani Andreas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Neshani Andreas"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump