# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ilan-stavans
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:12:13.226Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ilan-stavans"
name: "Ilan Stavans"
slug: "ilan-stavans"
description: "Ilan Stavans is a Mexican-born Jewish-American writer and academic. He writes and speaks on American, Hispanic, and Jewish cultures. He is the author of Quixote (2015) and a contributor to the Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2010). He was the host of the syndicated PBS show Conversations with Ilan Stavans, which ran from 2001 to 2006."
tagline: "Mexican-American author, publisher, TV personality, and teacher (born 1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ilan_Stavans_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Mexico"
  isoCode: "MX"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-04-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.688518666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/IlanStavans"
    handle:    "IlanStavans"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ilan_Stavans"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "ايلان ستايڤانس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Stavans"
    title: "Ilan Stavans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Stavans"
    title: "Ilan Stavans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Stavans"
    title: "Ilan Stavans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Stavans"
    title: "Ilan Stavans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9"
    title: "イラン・スタバンス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Stavans"
    title: "Ilan Stavans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ilan_Stavans"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2887093"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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