# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-preys
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:41:16.021Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-preys"
name: "Alexander Preys"
slug: "alexander-preys"
description: "Alexander Germanovich Preys was a Soviet writer of numerous plays and libretti, including those for Shostakovich's operas The Nose and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District."
tagline: "Russian playwright and librettist (1905–1942)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1905-12-05"
deathDate: "1942-04-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.72
  momentum:             4.038461538461539
  historical:           7.671922666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ae8685d3-b8bf-4808-b5ee-dc88c5edf442"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Preis"
    title: "Aleksandr Preis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandr_Germanovi%C4%8D_Preis"
    title: "Alexandr Germanovič Preis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Preys"
    title: "Alexander Preys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Preis"
    title: "Alexandre Preis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Germanovi%C4%8D_Prejs"
    title: "Aleksandr Germanovič Prejs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%A5%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%93%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94_%E1%83%9E%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98"
    title: "ალექსანდრე პრეისი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Прейс, Александр Германович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Preys"
    title: "Aleksandr Preys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2382184"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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