# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/burhan-sonmez
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:57:47.015Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/burhan-sonmez"
name: "Burhan Sönmez"
slug: "burhan-sonmez"
description: "Burhan Sönmez is a Kurdish novelist from Turkey. He is the President of PEN International, elected at the Centennial Congress in 2021. He is also Senior Member and a By-Fellow of Hughes Hall College, University of Cambridge."
tagline: "Turkish writer (born 1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Burhan_S%C3%B6nmez_-_Foire_du_Livre_de_Francfort_2017_(37600767186)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1965"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.57
  momentum:             10
  historical:           13.534244
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.burhansonmez.com/en/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "برهان سونميز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "برهان سونميز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Burhan Sönmez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بورھان سۆنمەز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burhan_S%C3%B6nmez"
    title: "Burhan Sönmez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burhan_S%C3%B6nmez"
    title: "Burhan Sönmez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burhan_S%C3%B6nmez"
    title: "Burhan Sönmez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burhan_S%C3%B6nmez"
    title: "Burhan Sönmez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burhan_S%C3%B6nmez"
    title: "Burhan Sönmez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burhan_S%C3%B6nmez"
    title: "Burhan Sönmez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burhan_S%C3%B6nmez"
    title: "Burhan Sönmez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burhan_S%C3%B6nmez"
    title: "Burhan Sönmez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burhan_S%C3%B6nmez"
    title: "Burhan Sönmez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burhan_S%C3%B6nmez"
    title: "Burhan Sönmez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%83%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B7"
    title: "Бурхан Сонмез"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Burhan Sönmez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4998761"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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