# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yvonne-adhiambo-owuor
# Generated: 2026-08-15T20:51:14.084Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yvonne-adhiambo-owuor"
name: "Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor"
slug: "yvonne-adhiambo-owuor"
description: "Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is a Kenyan writer who is the author of novels, short stories and essays. She won the 2003 Caine Prize for African Writing for her story \"Weight of Whispers\". Yvonne is also the co-founder of The Macondo Literary Festival ,a non-profit organization that seeks to organize regular literary festivals that promote literature and authors of Africa and from the Global."
tagline: "Kenyan writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yvonne_Owuor.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
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profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
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birthDate: "1968"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump