# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-may
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:55:28.870Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-may"
name: "Peter May"
slug: "peter-may"
description: "Peter May is a Scottish television screenwriter, novelist, and crime writer. He is the recipient of writing awards in Europe and America. The Blackhouse won the U.S. Barry Award for Crime Novel of the Year and the national literature award in France, the Cezam Prix Litteraire. The Lewis Man won the French daily newspaper Le Télégramme's 10,000-euro Grand Prix des Lecteurs. In 2014, Entry Island won both the Deanston's Scottish Crime Novel of the Year and the UK's ITV Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year Award. May's books have sold more than twelve million copies worldwide.\nIn 2025 May was awarded France's prestigious Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere. France's premier prize for crime fiction has been in existence since 1948 and previous winners include John le Carré, Patricia Highsmith and PD James."
tagline: "British and French writer (born 1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_May_-_Salon_du_livre_de_Paris_2010.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1951-12-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           13.673636
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump