# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-maspero
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:28:22.683Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-maspero"
name: "François Maspero"
slug: "francois-maspero"
description: "François Maspero was a French author and journalist, best known as a publisher of leftist books in the 1970s. He also worked as a translator, translating the works of Joseph Conrad, Mehdi Ben Barka, and John Reed, author of Ten Days that Shook the World, among others. He was awarded the Prix Décembre in 1990 for Les Passagers du Roissy-Express."
tagline: "French novelist, journalist, publisher, translator (1932–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fran%C3%A7ois_Maspero_DR.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-01-19"
deathDate: "2015-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.368421052631579
  historical:           10.97880133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "François Maspero"
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    title: "François Maspero"
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    title: "François Maspero"
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    title: "François Maspero"
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    title: "François Maspero"
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    title: "François Maspero"
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  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_Maspero"
    title: "Franciscus Maspero"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump