# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilna-adriaanse
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:50:57.892Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilna-adriaanse"
name: "Wilna Adriaanse"
slug: "wilna-adriaanse"
description: "Wilna Adriaanse is a South African Afrikaans romantic fiction writer. Her first book, Die wingerd sal weer bot, was published in 2000 under the name Wilmine Burger. Her book,  'n Heildronk op liefde, won the 2003 Lapa Publishers’ Prize for Romance and in 2009 she was awarded the ATKV-Woordveertjie prize for her novel, Die boek van Ester."
tagline: "South African Afrikaans romantic fiction writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958-03-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.89
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.735277333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilna_Adriaanse"
    title: "Wilna Adriaanse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilna_Adriaanse"
    title: "Wilna Adriaanse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilna_Adriaanse"
    title: "Wilna Adriaanse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilna_Adriaanse"
    title: "Wilna Adriaanse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilna_Adriaanse"
    title: "Wilna Adriaanse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilna_Adriaanse"
    title: "Wilna Adriaanse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilna_Adriaanse"
    title: "Wilna Adriaanse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22087462"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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