# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-o-nolan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:14:55.060Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-o-nolan"
name: "Brian O'Nolan"
slug: "brian-o-nolan"
description: "Brian O'Nolan, whose pen names included Flann O'Brien, was an Irish Civil Service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature. Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, he is regarded as a key figure in modernist and postmodern literature. His four English-language novels, At Swim-Two-Birds (1939), The Hard Life (1961), The Dalkey Archive (1964) and The Third Policeman (1967), were published under the pen name Flann O'Brien. His many satirical columns in The Irish Times and an Irish-language novel, An Béal Bocht (1941), were written under the name Myles na gCopaleen."
tagline: "Irish writer (1911-1966)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/41/Brian_O%27Nolan.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1911-10-05"
deathDate: "1966-04-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.430652
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  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