# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/petina-gappah
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:36:10.915Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/petina-gappah"
name: "Petina Gappah"
slug: "petina-gappah"
description: "Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language. In 2016, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by Brittle Paper. In 2017 she had a DAAD Artist-in-Residence fellowship in Berlin."
tagline: "Zimbabwean writer, journalist and business lawyer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Petina_Gappah_Buchmesse.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1971"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.54388133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Petina_Gappah"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%87"
    title: "پيتينا جاپاه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petina_Gappah"
    title: "Petina Gappah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petina_Gappah"
    title: "Petina Gappah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petina_Gappah"
    title: "Petina Gappah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petina_Gappah"
    title: "Petina Gappah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petina_Gappah"
    title: "Petina Gappah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petina_Gappah"
    title: "Petina Gappah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9A%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%91"
    title: "ペティナ・ガッパ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petina_Gappah"
    title: "Petina Gappah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petina_Gappah"
    title: "Petina Gappah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petina_Gappah"
    title: "Petina Gappah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Petina_Gappah"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4949447"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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