# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elmer-mendoza
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:04:38.613Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elmer-mendoza"
name: "Élmer Mendoza"
slug: "elmer-mendoza"
description: "Élmer Mendoza is a Mexican author. He is one of the key figures in the genre known as narcoliterature. A dramatist and short story writer, he is known above all for his novels, several of which feature the detective Edgar El Zurdo Mendieta."
tagline: "Mexican writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%C3%89lmer_Mendoza_en_Guadalajara.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Mexico"
  isoCode: "MX"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-12-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.484126666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lmer_Mendoza"
    title: "Élmer Mendoza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lmer_Mendoza"
    title: "Élmer Mendoza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lmer_Mendoza"
    title: "Élmer Mendoza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lmer_Mendoza"
    title: "Élmer Mendoza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lmer_Mendoza"
    title: "Élmer Mendoza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Mendoza"
    title: "Elmer Mendoza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q274747"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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