# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cecilia-banu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:46:03.613Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cecilia-banu"
name: "Cecilia Banu"
slug: "cecilia-banu"
description: "Cecilia Bencianovna Banu, née Bakaleyshchik, was a Soviet and Russian scholar of Iranian studies, a poet and a translator from Persian to Russian. She is best known for her multi-volume translation of the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. She was the wife of Abulqosim Lohuti."
tagline: "Soviet writer (1911-1998)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6b/A._Lahuti_and_C._Banu.jpg/330px-A._Lahuti_and_C._Banu.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1911-03-13"
deathDate: "1998-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.51
  momentum:             5.714285714285715
  historical:           3.939453333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Banu"
    title: "Cecilia Banu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%2C_%D0%A6%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Бану, Цецилия Бенциановна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%83%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Бону, Ситсилия Бенсиановна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83_%D0%A6%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%96%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Бану Цецилія Бенціанівна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4077482"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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