# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/darren-o-shaughnessy
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:11:18.683Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/darren-o-shaughnessy"
name: "Darren O'Shaughnessy"
slug: "darren-o-shaughnessy"
description: "Darren O'Shaughnessy is an Irish writer and novelist. He is best known for his young adult fiction series The Saga of Darren Shan, The Demonata, and Zom-B, published under the pseudonym Darren Shan. The former was adapted into a manga series from 2006 to 2009 as well as a live-action film in 2009, with a prequel series, The Saga of Larten Crepsley, being released from 2010 to 2012."
tagline: "Irish novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Darren_Shan_(2016).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1972-07-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.43799066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/darrenshan"
    handle:    "darrenshan"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1752231/"
    handle:    "nm1752231"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.darrenshan.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Darren Shan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Дарън Шан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Darren O'Shaughnessey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Darren Shan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Darren O'Shaughnessy"
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    title: "Darren Shan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Darren Shan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Darren Shan"
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    title: "Darren Shan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Darren Shan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ダレン・シャン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Darren Shan"
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    title: "Darren Shan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ดาร์เรน โอชอนิสซี"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "向達倫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q356428"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/109872"
    title: "Darren Shan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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