# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/orson-scott-card
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:03:49.636Z

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name: "Orson Scott Card"
slug: "orson-scott-card"
description: "Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024, he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card coproduced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2026). Card's fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing; he has provoked controversy and criticism for his public opposition to homosexuality."
tagline: "American science fiction novelist (born 1951)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump