# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/boris-akunin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:12:19.485Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/boris-akunin"
name: "Boris Akunin"
slug: "boris-akunin"
description: "Grigori Chkhartishvili, better known by his pen name Boris Akunin, is a Georgian and Russian writer residing in the United Kingdom. He is best known as a writer of historical fiction, specifically his Erast Fandorin detective novels. He is also an essayist and literary translator. Grigory Chkhartishvili has also written under pen names Anatoly Brusnikin, Anna Borisova, and Akunin-Chkhartishvili. His characters include Erast Fandorin, Nicholas Fandorin and Sister Pelagia."
tagline: "Russian writer, translation, and historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/B._Akunin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-05-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump