# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/boualem-sansal
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:27:04.876Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/boualem-sansal"
name: "Boualem Sansal"
slug: "boualem-sansal"
description: "Boualem Sansal is a French-Algerian author who writes in French. He holds an engineering degree from the National Polytechnic School and a PhD in economics. Sansal has worked as a teacher, consultant, business leader, and senior official in Algeria’s Ministry of Industry. After retiring from his high-ranking government position, he began writing novels at the age of 50. He is known for his outspoken criticism of Islamism."
tagline: "Algerian and French writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Boualem_Sansal_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-10-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump