# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ardian-vehbiu
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:40:47.658Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ardian-vehbiu"
name: "Ardian Vehbiu"
slug: "ardian-vehbiu"
description: "Ardian Vehbiu is an Albanian author and translator. He was born in Tirana, Albania in 1959 and now resides in New York City. He is the author of 12 non-fiction and fiction books, as well as of a number of research papers in linguistics and semiotics. He is the winner of the 2009 \"Gjergj Fishta\" national non-fiction award with \"Shqipja totalitare\", (2009), as well as the winner of the 2014 \"Ardian Klosi\" non-fiction award, with \"Sende që nxirrte deti\", (2013)."
tagline: "Albanian author and translator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ardian_Vehbiu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-08-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.54
  momentum:             0.5333333333333334
  historical:           4.602844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%87%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "ارديان ڤيهبيو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardian_Vehbiu"
    title: "Ardian Vehbiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardian_Vehbiu"
    title: "Ardian Vehbiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardian_Vehbiu"
    title: "Ardian Vehbiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardian_Vehbiu"
    title: "Ardian Vehbiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13037086"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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