# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/akif-pirincci
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:16:42.294Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/akif-pirincci"
name: "Akif Pirinçci"
slug: "akif-pirincci"
description: "Akif Pirinçci is a Turkish-born German writer who is best known internationally for his novel Felidae. After a highly controversial speech for the Pegida movement in 2015, he had his contracts cancelled and works delisted by his publishers, Amazon and most booksellers in Germany."
tagline: "Turkish-German writer (born 1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2014-05-10_Akif_Pirin%C3%A7ci_IMG_1437.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-10-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.70710533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0685188/"
    handle:    "nm0685188"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://der-kleine-akif.de/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%89"
    title: "اكيف پيرينكسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Акиф Пиринчи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akif_Pirin%C3%A7ci"
    title: "Akif Pirinçci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akif_Pirin%C3%A7ci"
    title: "Akif Pirinçci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akif_Pirin%C3%A7ci"
    title: "Akif Pirinçci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akif_Pirin%C3%A7ci"
    title: "Akif Pirinçci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%81_%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%86%D8%AC%DB%8C"
    title: "آکیف پیرینچجی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akif_Pirin%C3%A7ci"
    title: "Akif Pirinçci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akif_Pirin%C3%A7ci"
    title: "Akif Pirinçci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "アキフ・ピリンチ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akif_Pirin%C3%A7ci"
    title: "Akif Pirinçci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akif_Pirin%C3%A7ci"
    title: "Akif Pirinçci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akif_Pirin%C3%A7ci"
    title: "Akif Pirinçci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B8%2C_%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%84"
    title: "Пиринчи, Акиф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akif_Pirin%C3%A7ci"
    title: "Akif Pirinçci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akif_Pirin%C3%A7ci"
    title: "Akif Pirinçci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1700fba2-546b-406f-99c0-e7c1d3d9a5ac"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62742"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56479"
    title: "Akif Pirinçci"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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