# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fazil-iskander
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:05:14.004Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fazil-iskander"
name: "Fazil Iskander"
slug: "fazil-iskander"
description: "Fazil Abdulovich Iskander was a Soviet and Russian writer and poet known in the former Soviet Union for his descriptions of Caucasian life. He authored various stories, including \"Zashchita Chika\", which features a crafty and likeable young boy named \"Chik\", but is probably best known for the picaresque novel Sandro of Chegem and its sequel The Gospel According to Chegem."
tagline: "Soviet and Russian writer (1929–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fazil_Iskander_in_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-03-06"
deathDate: "2016-07-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.236412
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0411225"
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    url:       "http://faziliskander.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump