# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hector-abad-faciolince
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:02:54.404Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hector-abad-faciolince"
name: "Héctor Abad Faciolince"
slug: "hector-abad-faciolince"
description: "Héctor Abad Faciolince is a Colombian novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor who also holds Spanish citizenship. Abad is considered one of the most talented post-Latin American Boom writers in Latin American literature. Abad is best known for his bestselling novel Angosta and, more recently, El Olvido que Seremos."
tagline: "Colombian novelist, essayist, journalist and editor (born 1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hector_Abad.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958-10-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.29
  momentum:             9.395604395604394
  historical:           8.885217333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.hectorabad.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "هيكتور اباد فاسيولينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Héctor Abad Faciolince"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Abad_Faciolince"
    title: "Héctor Abad Faciolince"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Abad_Faciolince"
    title: "Héctor Abad Faciolince"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%A2%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%87"
    title: "اکتور آباد فاسیولینسه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Abad_Faciolince"
    title: "Héctor Abad Faciolince"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Abad_Faciolince"
    title: "Héctor Abad Faciolince"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Abad_Faciolince"
    title: "Héctor Abad Faciolince"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ектор Абад Фасіолінсе"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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