# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rian-malan
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:02:15.589Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rian-malan"
name: "Rian Malan"
slug: "rian-malan"
description: "Rian Malan is a South African author, journalist, documentarist and songwriter of Afrikaner descent. He first rose to prominence as the author of the memoir My Traitor's Heart (1990), which, like the bulk of his work, deals with South African society in a historical and contemporary perspective and focuses on racial relations. As a journalist, he has written for major newspapers in South Africa, Britain and the United States."
tagline: "South African writer and journalist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.47
  momentum:             0.410958904109589
  historical:           9.688878666666668
  currentAttention:     2.28310502283105
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2806316/"
    handle:    "nm2806316"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5eaa99e5-4769-4b86-8e1b-647f174e2975"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rian_Malan"
    title: "Rian Malan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ريان مالان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rian_Malan"
    title: "Rian Malan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rian_Malan"
    title: "Rian Malan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rian_Malan"
    title: "Rian Malan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rian_Malan"
    title: "Rian Malan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rian_Malan"
    title: "Rian Malan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rian_Malan"
    title: "Rian Malan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rian_Malan"
    title: "Rian Malan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rian_Malan"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3107505"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2317176"
    title: "Rian Malan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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