# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shena-mackay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:57:43.365Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shena-mackay"
name: "Shena Mackay"
slug: "shena-mackay"
description: "Shena Mackay FRSL is a Scottish novelist born in Edinburgh. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1996 for The Orchard on Fire, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2003 for Heligoland."
tagline: "British writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-06-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.29
  momentum:             2.307692307692307
  historical:           6.146977333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Шена Макај"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "شينا ماكاي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "شينا ماكاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%87"
    title: "শ্বেনা মেকে"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shena_Mackay"
    title: "Shena Mackay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shena_Mackay"
    title: "Shena Mackay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%B9%2C_%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Маккей, Шена"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7494144"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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