# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-abrahams
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:52:02.856Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-abrahams"
name: "Peter Abrahams"
slug: "peter-abrahams"
description: "Peter Henry Abrahams Deras, commonly known as Peter Abrahams, was a South African-born novelist, journalist and political commentator who in 1956 settled in Jamaica, where he lived for the rest of his life. His death at the age of 97 is considered to have been murder."
tagline: "South African novelist, journalist and political commentator (1919–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Abrahams.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1919-03-19"
deathDate: "2017-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.42
  momentum:             15
  historical:           22.97548933333334
  currentAttention:     3.464285714285714
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  170
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-country-fill