# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrei-codrescu
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:45:19.915Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrei-codrescu"
name: "Andrei Codrescu"
slug: "andrei-codrescu"
description: "Andrei Codrescu is a Romanian-born American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for National Public Radio. He is the winner of the Peabody Award for his film Road Scholar and the Ovid Prize for poetry. He was the MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University from 1984 until his retirement in 2009."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AndreiCodrescu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1946"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.17
  momentum:             5.333333333333333
  historical:           8.361233333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0168537/"
    handle:    "nm0168537"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrei_Codrescu"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "اندرى كودريسكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Codrescu"
    title: "Andrei Codrescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Codrescu"
    title: "Andrei Codrescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Codrescu"
    title: "Andrei Codrescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%95"
    title: "אנדריי קודרסקו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Codrescu"
    title: "Andreas Codrescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Codrescu"
    title: "Andrei Codrescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%83%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9"
    title: "Кодреску, Андрей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Codrescu"
    title: "Andrei Codrescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2907822"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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