# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ivan-cankar
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:06:20.240Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ivan-cankar"
name: "Ivan Cankar"
slug: "ivan-cankar"
description: "Ivan Cankar was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet, and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature. He is regarded as the greatest writer in Slovene, and has sometimes been compared to Franz Kafka and James Joyce."
tagline: "Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist (1876-1918)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ivan_Cankar_1915.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1876-05-10"
deathDate: "1918-12-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump