# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carmen-balcells
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:25:21.371Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carmen-balcells"
name: "Carmen Balcells"
slug: "carmen-balcells"
description: "Carmen Balcells Segala was a literary agent of Spanish-language authors from Spain and Latin America, including six Nobel Prize–winning authors. She led her agency from 1956 to 2000, during which time she was one of the driving forces behind the 1960s boom of Latin American literature."
tagline: "Literary agent"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carmen_Balcells.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
birthDate: "1930-08-09"
deathDate: "2015-09-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "كارمين بالسيلز"
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    title: "Carme Balcells i Segalà"
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    title: "Carmen Balcells"
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    title: "Carmen Balcells"
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    title: "Carmen Balcells"
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    title: "Carmen Balcells"
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    title: "Carmen Balcells"
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    title: "卡門·巴塞爾斯"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump