# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-cheng
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:02:22.250Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-cheng"
name: "François Cheng"
slug: "francois-cheng"
description: "François Cheng is a Chinese-born French academician, writer, poet, and calligrapher. He is the author of essays, novels, collections of poetry and books on art written in the French language, and the translator of some of the great French poets into Chinese."
tagline: "Chinese-born French writer, poet and calligrapher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fran%C3%A7ois_Cheng-FIG_2004.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-08-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.57514
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump