# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dany-laferriere
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:16:23.348Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dany-laferriere"
name: "Dany Laferrière"
slug: "dany-laferriere"
description: "Windsor Klébert Laferrière, known as Dany Laferrière is a Haitian-Canadian writer, filmmaker and journalist. He was elected to seat 2 of the Académie française on 12 December 2013, and inducted in May 2015. Born in Haiti, he lives between Montreal and Paris."
tagline: "Haitian Canadian novelist, screenwriter and former journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Un_coeur_nomade_%C3%A0_Tunis%2C_2021_(%C3%A9crivain_Dany_Laferri%C3%A8re_de_l'Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-04-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0480767"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://danylaferriere.com"
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    title: "Лаферьер, Дани"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump