# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-borges
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:23:46.840Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-borges"
name: "J. Borges"
slug: "j-borges"
description: "José Francisco Borges, best known as J. Borges, was a Brazilian folk poet and woodcut artist. He was considered the greatest woodcut artist in northeastern Brazil, and \"the most celebrated master of the art.\" His work was exhibited around the world, including at the Louvre and the Smithsonian. It is in the permanent collection of the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. Borges was a proponent of Cordel literature."
tagline: "Brazilian popular artist, cordelist and poet (1935–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J._Borges.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1935-08-04"
deathDate: "2024-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.039887999999999
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%87_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%BA%D8%B2"
    title: "خوسيه فرنسيسكو بورغز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Francisco_Borges"
    title: "José Francisco Borges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Borges"
    title: "J. Borges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%B9"
    title: "J・ボルジェス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Borges"
    title: "J. Borges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10304583"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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