# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-goldblatt
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:13:27.149Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-goldblatt"
name: "Howard Goldblatt"
slug: "howard-goldblatt"
description: "Howard Goldblatt is an American literary translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese fiction, including The Taste of Apples by Huang Chunming and The Execution of Mayor Yin by Chen Ruoxi. Goldblatt also translated works of Chinese novelist and 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Mo Yan, including six of Mo Yan's novels and collections of stories. He was a research professor of Chinese at the University of Notre Dame from 2002 to 2011."
tagline: "American translator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Howard_Goldblatt.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.02
  momentum:             0.9782608695652173
  historical:           5.080778666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "هوارد جولدبلات"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump