# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hannes-petursson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:23:01.726Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hannes-petursson"
name: "Hannes Pétursson"
slug: "hannes-petursson"
description: "Hannes Pétursson is an Icelandic poet and writer who has authored a number of books of poetry and other works and received many awards. He is amongst the most widely translated of living Icelandic poets. He is a recipient of the German Henrik Steffens Prize in 1975 and the Icelandic Literary Prize for his poetry collection Eldhylur in 1993."
tagline: "Icelandic writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Verleihung_Henrik-Steffens-Preis_1975_der_Alfred-T%C3%B6pfer-Stiftung_F.V.S._an_Lyriker_Hannes_Petursson_(Kiel_66.121).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-12-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.38
  momentum:             15.33333333333333
  historical:           9.202232
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Hannes Pétursson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "هانيس پيتورسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hannes Pétursson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_P%C3%A9tursson"
    title: "Hannes Pétursson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_P%C3%A9tursson"
    title: "Hannes Pétursson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_P%C3%A9tursson"
    title: "Hannes Pétursson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_P%C3%A9tursson"
    title: "Hannes Pétursson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_P%C3%A9tursson"
    title: "Hannes Pétursson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_P%C3%A9tursson"
    title: "Hannes Pétursson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_P%C3%A9tursson"
    title: "Hannes Pétursson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81_%D0%9F%D1%8C%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8E%D1%80%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Ханнес Пьетюрссон"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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