# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dev-virahsawmy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:26:45.792Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dev-virahsawmy"
name: "Dev Virahsawmy"
slug: "dev-virahsawmy"
description: "Dev Virahsawmy was a Mauritian politician, playwright, poet and advocate of the Mauritian Creole language. Though he wrote easily in both French and English, Virahsawmy was most renowned for his efforts to popularise the use of Creole."
tagline: "Mauritian politician (1942–2023)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942-03-16"
deathDate: "2023-11-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.875990666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3701889"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%85%D9%89"
    title: "ديف فيراساومى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dev_Virahsawmy"
    title: "Dev Virahsawmy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dev_Virahsawmy"
    title: "Dev Virahsawmy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dev_Virahsawmy"
    title: "Dev Virahsawmy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dev_Virahsawmy"
    title: "Dev Virahsawmy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%B4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%BD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9F"
    title: "デヴ・ヴィラソーミ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%B0%EB%B8%8C_%EB%B9%84%EB%9D%BC%ED%9D%90%EC%82%AC%EC%9A%B0%EB%AF%B8"
    title: "데브 비라흐사우미"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BC%D0%B8%2C_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B2"
    title: "Вирасавми, Дев"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q866272"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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