# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patricia-schonstein
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:45:03.464Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patricia-schonstein"
name: "Patricia Schonstein"
slug: "patricia-schonstein"
description: "Patricia Schonstein, who also writes under the name Patricia Schonstein-Pinnock, is a South African-Italian novelist, poet, memoirist, author of children’s books and curator of anthologies. Schonstein, whose novels variously employ the genres of magical-realism, meta-fiction and narrative fiction, is famous for novels such as Skyline and A Time of Angels."
tagline: "South African writer and poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Patricia_Schonstein.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-03-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.337473333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://patriciaschonstein.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Schonstein"
    title: "Patricia Schonstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Schonstein"
    title: "Patricia Schonstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Schonstein"
    title: "Patricia Schonstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Schonstein"
    title: "Patricia Schonstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Schonstein"
    title: "Patricia Schonstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Schonstein"
    title: "Patricia Schonstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4989660"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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