# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/candani
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:13:11.916Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/candani"
name: "Cándani"
slug: "candani"
description: "Saya Yasmine Amores was a Surinamese-Dutch poet, writer, and painter. She wrote under the pen name Cándani from 1982 to 2007. She then used the name Saya Yasmine Amores, which she legally adopted in 2013."
tagline: "Writer from Suriname (1965-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/De_Surinaamse_C%C3%A1ndani_in_1992.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1965-03-08"
deathDate: "2021-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.604464
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1ndani"
    title: "Cándani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1ndani"
    title: "Cándani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1ndani"
    title: "Cándani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Кандани"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1ndani"
    title: "Cándani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2120461"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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