# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hitoshi-igarashi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:01:57.646Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hitoshi-igarashi"
name: "Hitoshi Igarashi"
slug: "hitoshi-igarashi"
description: "Hitoshi Igarashi  was a Japanese scholar of Arabic and Persian literature and history and the Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. He was murdered in the wake of fatwas issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran – who, by the time of Igarashi's murder, had died – calling for the death of the book's author and \"those involved in its publication.\" His murder remains unsolved."
tagline: "Japanese writer (1947-1991)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Hitoshi_Igarashi.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-06-10"
deathDate: "1991-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.953406717976254
  historical:           16.33633733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump