# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carles-capdevila
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:22:38.256Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carles-capdevila"
name: "Carles Capdevila"
slug: "carles-capdevila"
description: "Carles Capdevila i Plandiura was a Catalan journalist and writer, director of the newspaper Ara for its first five years and from 28 November 2015 onwards founding director. He presented and directed the programmes Eduqueu les criatures in Catalunya Ràdio and Qui els va parir in TV3. He was deputy director of the program Malalts de tele. He directed the section Alguna pregunta més?, within El matí de Catalunya Ràdio. He received the humor and satire award 'Premi Pere Quart d'humor i sàtira' in 1999 for the book Criatura i companyia and in 2016 the National Prize for Communication. He died from colorectal cancer on 1 June 2017."
tagline: "Catalan journalist (1965-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Catosfera_2011_41.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1965-08-13"
deathDate: "2017-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.33
  momentum:             5.464285714285714
  historical:           5.082254666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/CarlesCapde"
    handle:    "CarlesCapde"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/carles.capdevila"
    handle:    "carles.capdevila"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/carles-capdevila-2157399/"
    handle:    "carles-capdevila-2157399"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1959504/"
    handle:    "nm1959504"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.carlescapdevila.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carles_Capdevila_i_Plandiura"
    title: "Carles Capdevila i Plandiura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carles_Capdevila_i_Plandiura"
    title: "Carles Capdevila i Plandiura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carles_Capdevila"
    title: "Carles Capdevila"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carles_Capdevila_i_Plandiura"
    title: "Carles Capdevila i Plandiura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carles_Capdevila_i_Plandiura"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12385322"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1876146"
    title: "Carles Capdevila"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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