# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patricia-grace
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:42:25.905Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patricia-grace"
name: "Patricia Grace"
slug: "patricia-grace"
description: "Patricia Frances Grace is a New Zealand writer of novels, short stories, and children's books. She began writing as a young adult, while working as a teacher. Her early short stories were published in magazines, leading to her becoming the first female Māori writer to publish a collection of short stories, Waiariki, in 1975. Her first novel, Mutuwhenua: The Moon Sleeps, followed in 1978."
tagline: "New Zealand writer (born 1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Patricia_Grace_in_2016_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-08-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.425344
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Grace"
    title: "Patricia Grace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باتريشيا غريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باتريشيا جريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Grace"
    title: "Patricia Grace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Grace"
    title: "Patricia Grace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Grace"
    title: "Patricia Grace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Grace"
    title: "Patricia Grace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Grace"
    title: "Patricia Grace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%A1_%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A1"
    title: "פטרישיה פרנסס גרייס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Grace"
    title: "Patricia Grace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Grace"
    title: "Patricia Grace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Grace"
    title: "Patricia Grace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Grace"
    title: "Patricia Grace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138882"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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