# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/horacio-quiroga
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:59:25.055Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/horacio-quiroga"
name: "Horacio Quiroga"
slug: "horacio-quiroga"
description: "Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza was a Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer. The jungle settings of his stories emphasized the conflict between humans and nature. His portrayals of mental illness and hallucinatory states were influenced by Edgar Allan Poe. In turn, Quiroga influenced Gabriel García Márquez and Julio Cortázar."
tagline: "Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer (1878–1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Horacio_Quiroga.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1878-12-31"
deathDate: "1937-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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