# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alberto-mendez
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:27:53.930Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alberto-mendez"
name: "Alberto Méndez"
slug: "alberto-mendez"
description: "Alberto Méndez was a Spanish novelist. He graduated from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and worked in publishing. His novel Los girasoles ciegos won several awards, including the Sentenil Prize (2004), the Critics' Prize and the National Prize for Literature in 2005. It was translated into English by Nick Caistor under the title Blind Sunflowers. It was also made into a film called The Blind Sunflowers (2008)."
tagline: "Spanish writer (1941-2004)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-08-27"
deathDate: "2004-12-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.351981333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2778284/"
    handle:    "nm2778284"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_M%C3%A9ndez"
    title: "Alberto Méndez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B2_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "ألبرتو منديز (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_M%C3%A9ndez_Borra"
    title: "Alberto Méndez Borra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_M%C3%A9ndez"
    title: "Alberto Méndez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_M%C3%A9ndez"
    title: "Alberto Méndez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%81%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BE"
    title: "Мендес, Альберто"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6153692"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2711664"
    title: "Alberto Méndez"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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