# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/camara-laye
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:16:20.481Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/camara-laye"
name: "Camara Laye"
slug: "camara-laye"
description: "Camara Laye was a writer from Guinea. His most well-known works are The African Child, a novel based loosely on his own childhood, and The Radiance of the King. Both novels are among the earliest major works in Francophone African literature. Camara Laye later worked for the government of newly independent Guinea, but went into voluntary exile over political issues."
tagline: "Guinean writer (1928–1980)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1928-01-01"
deathDate: "1980-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.458176
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4640005"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laye_Camara"
    title: "Laye Camara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camara_Laye"
    title: "Camara Laye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camara_Laye"
    title: "Camara Laye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camara_Laye"
    title: "Camara Laye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camara_Laye"
    title: "Camara Laye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camara_Laye"
    title: "Camara Laye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camara_Laye"
    title: "Camara Laye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camara_Laye"
    title: "Camara Laye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camara_Laye"
    title: "Camara Laye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camara_Laye"
    title: "Camara Laye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camara_Laye"
    title: "Camara Laye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Camara_Laye"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Camara_Laye"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1371169"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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