# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugo-correa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:01:59.402Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hugo-correa"
name: "Hugo Correa"
slug: "hugo-correa"
description: "Hugo Correa was a Chilean journalist and science fiction writer, and is widely credited with launching modern science fiction in Latin America. A couple of his stories appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He also was a columnist in Chile at the Chilean journals “El Mercurio” and “La Tercera”, also at the Chilean magazines “Ercilla” and “Revista Paula\". Also, he was the president of the cultural committee of the Instituto Chileno Norteamericano; co-founder of the Chilean SF Club and president of UFO Chile."
tagline: "Chilean writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hugo_Correa_M%C3%A1rquez_(2008).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1926-05-24"
deathDate: "2008-03-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.08
  momentum:             4.11214953271028
  historical:           5.677538666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Correa"
    title: "Hugo Correa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%BA%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "هوغو كوريا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "هوجو كوريا (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B0"
    title: "Уго Корреа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Correa"
    title: "Hugo Correa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Correa"
    title: "Hugo Correa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9005277"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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