# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pauline-melville
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:38:50.976Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pauline-melville"
name: "Pauline Melville"
slug: "pauline-melville"
description: "Pauline Melville FRSL is an English writer and former actress of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, who is currently based in London, England. Among awards she has received for her writing – which encompasses short stories, novels and essays – are the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Guyana Prize for Literature. Salman Rushdie has said of Melville: \"I believe her to be one of the few genuinely original writers to emerge in recent years.\""
tagline: "Guyanese writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.02
  momentum:             7.202944269190326
  historical:           10.99222933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0578501/"
    handle:    "nm0578501"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/dcab99e6-928c-4d4b-ba3a-6274bbf93554"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بولين ميلفيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "بولين ميلفيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Melville"
    title: "Pauline Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Melville"
    title: "Pauline Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "پائولین ملویل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Melville"
    title: "Pauline Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Melville"
    title: "Pauline Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Мелвилл, Полин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BB"
    title: "Полин Мелвил"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Полін Мелвілл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "پولین میلویل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Melville"
    title: "Pauline Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3372750"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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