# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerard-de-cortanze
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:58:21.546Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerard-de-cortanze"
name: "Gérard de Cortanze"
slug: "gerard-de-cortanze"
description: "Gérard de Cortanze is a French writer, essayist, translator and literary critic. He won the Prix Renaudot in 2002 for his historical novel Assam. He was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 2009."
tagline: "French writer, essayist, translator and literary critic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LslaP_Gerard_de_Cortanze_1511690.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-07-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.416524
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.cortanze.com/index.htm"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "جيرارد د كورتانز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_de_Cortanze"
    title: "Gérard de Cortanze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_de_Cortanze"
    title: "Gérard de Cortanze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_de_Cortanze"
    title: "Gérard de Cortanze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_de_Cortanze"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3124405"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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