# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/seiko-tanabe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:18:02.064Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/seiko-tanabe"
name: "Seiko Tanabe"
slug: "seiko-tanabe"
description: "Seiko Tanabe  was a Japanese author. She graduated from the Department of Japanese Literature of Shōin Joshi Senmon Gakkō. Author of numerous novels, she won the Akutagawa Prize, Yomiuri Prize, and Asahi Prize, and received the Order of Culture for her contributions to literature. The honorific nicknamed the L. M. Montgomery of Japan after her death in 2019."
tagline: "Japanese novelist and writer (1928-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Seiko_Tanabe1966.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1928-03-27"
deathDate: "2019-06-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.53
  momentum:             12.99776328810205
  historical:           7.220176
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1656345/"
    handle:    "nm1656345"
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B0%E8%BE%BA%E8%81%96%E5%AD%90"
    title: "田辺聖子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A"
    title: "سيكو تانابي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "سيكو تانابى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiko_Tanabe"
    title: "Seiko Tanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiko_Tanabe"
    title: "Seiko Tanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiko_Tanabe"
    title: "Seiko Tanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiko_Tanabe"
    title: "Seiko Tanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11577386"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1080841"
    title: "Seiko Tanabe"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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