# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elchin-afandiyev
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:29:16.441Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elchin-afandiyev"
name: "Elchin Afandiyev"
slug: "elchin-afandiyev"
description: "Elchin Ilyas oglu Afandiyev, also known mononymously as Elçin was an Azerbaijani writer, academic and politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan from 1993 to 2018."
tagline: "Azerbaijani writer and politician (1943-2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/El%C3%A7in_%C6%8Ff%C9%99ndiyev.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-05-13"
deathDate: "2025-08-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             12.4390243902439
  historical:           9.875450666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "الكين افانديڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elçin Əfəndiyev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elchin Afandiyev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "الچین افندی‌اف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elchin_Afandiyev"
    title: "Elchin Afandiyev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Эфендиев, Эльчин Ильяс оглы"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elchin Afandiyev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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