# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steph-swainston
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:46:55.384Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steph-swainston"
name: "Steph Swainston"
slug: "steph-swainston"
description: "Stephanie Jane Swainston is a British literary fantasy/science fiction author, known for the Castle series. Her debut novel, The Year of Our War (2004), won the 2005 Crawford Award and a nomination for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer."
tagline: "British writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steph_Swainston_at_%C3%85con.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1974"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.811628
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.stephswainston.co.uk"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steph_Swainston"
    title: "Steph Swainston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steph_Swainston"
    title: "Steph Swainston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steph_Swainston"
    title: "Steph Swainston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steph_Swainston"
    title: "Steph Swainston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steph_Swainston"
    title: "Steph Swainston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2016662"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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