# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alejandro-gandara
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:07:05.501Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alejandro-gandara"
name: "Alejandro Gándara"
slug: "alejandro-gandara"
description: "Alejandro Gándara is a Spanish writer. Born in Santander, Cantabria, Gandara studied political science and sociology at Complutense University in Madrid, where he also now teaches. He won the Premio Ignacio Aldecoa for short stories in 1979, and published his first novel La media distancia in 1984. He has published more than a dozen volumes of fiction and non-fiction, and his work has been translated into English, German and Italian among other languages."
tagline: "Spanish writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alejandro_G%C3%A1ndara_Literaktum_02.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             18.13207547169811
  historical:           5.479194666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://alejandrogandara.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Alejandro Gándara"
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    title: "أليخاندرو غاندارا"
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    title: "اليخاندرو جاندارا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_G%C3%A1ndara"
    title: "Alejandro Gándara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_G%C3%A1ndara"
    title: "Alejandro Gándara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_G%C3%A1ndara"
    title: "Alejandro Gándara"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump