# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-balaban
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:12:08.312Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-balaban"
name: "Jan Balabán"
slug: "jan-balaban"
description: "Jan Balabán was a Czech writer, journalist, and translator. He was considered an existentialist whose works often dealt with the wretched and desperate aspects of the human condition."
tagline: "Czech writer and translator (1961–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Balaban%2C_Authors'_Reading_Month_2009%2C_Brno%2C_Czech_Republic_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-01-29"
deathDate: "2010-04-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.73700533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://janbalaban.pl/"
sources:
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "چان بالابان"
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    title: "Jan Balabán"
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    title: "Jan Balabán"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Balab%C3%A1n"
    title: "Jan Balabán"
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    title: "Балабан, Ян"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump