# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfredo-varela
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:59:58.393Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfredo-varela"
name: "Alfredo Varela"
slug: "alfredo-varela"
description: "Alfredo Varela was an Argentine writer. A communist, he won the Lenin Peace Prize 1970-1971 and was awarded with the Order of Friendship of Peoples by the Soviet Union. His most famous novel was The Dark River, adapted into a film by his friend Hugo del Carril in 1952 as Las aguas bajan turbias."
tagline: "Argentinian writer (1914-1984)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alfredo_Varela-C115.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Argentina"
  isoCode: "AR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1914-09-24"
deathDate: "1984-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.67
  momentum:             2
  historical:           8.541325333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Альфредо Варела"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Алфредо Варела"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Varela"
    title: "Alfredo Varela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Varela_(Argentine_writer)"
    title: "Alfredo Varela (Argentine writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Varela"
    title: "Alfredo Varela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Varela"
    title: "Alfredo Varela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%AC%D6%86%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%A4%D5%B8_%D5%8E%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%AC%D5%A1"
    title: "Ալֆրեդո Վարելա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Varela_(escritor_argentino)"
    title: "Alfredo Varela (escritor argentino)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE"
    title: "Варела, Альфредо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Varela"
    title: "Alfredo Varela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3622103"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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