# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/phaswane-mpe
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:17:12.116Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/phaswane-mpe"
name: "Phaswane Mpe"
slug: "phaswane-mpe"
description: "Phaswane Mpe was a South African poet and novelist. He was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was a lecturer in African literature. He did his master's degree in publishing at Oxford Brookes University in 1998. His debut novel, Welcome to Our Hillbrow, was published in 2001. A collection of short stories and poems, Brooding Clouds, was published posthumously in 2008."
tagline: "South African writer (1970-2004)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1970-09-10"
deathDate: "2004-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.38
  momentum:             3.6
  historical:           5.070878666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaswane_Mpe"
    title: "Phaswane Mpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaswane_Mpe"
    title: "Phaswane Mpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaswane_Mpe"
    title: "Phaswane Mpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Phaswane_Mpe"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaswane_Mpe"
    title: "Phaswane Mpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaswane_Mpe"
    title: "Phaswane Mpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3901292"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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