# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ghassan-kanafani
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:24:54.301Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/ghassan-kanafani"
name: "Ghassan Kanafani"
slug: "ghassan-kanafani"
description: "Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was a prominent Palestinian author and militant, considered to be a leading novelist of his generation and one of the Arab world's leading Palestinian writers. Kanafani's works have been translated into more than 17 languages."
tagline: "Palestinian writer (1936-1972)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1936-04-09"
deathDate: "1972-07-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.029685681024447
  historical:           24.191624
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump