# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-dost
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:47:40.272Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-dost"
name: "Jan Dost"
slug: "jan-dost"
description: "Jan Dost,, is a Syrian Kurdish poet, writer and translator. He has written several novels both in his native Kurmanji Kurdish language and in Arabic. He is known as a prolific Kurdish writer, with several of his novels in the context of the Syrian civil war. Apart from his own works, Dost has translated Kurdish and Persian works into Arabic, including Mem and Zin, a classical Kurdish love story, written by Ahmad Khani in the 17th century and considered as the national epic of the Kurdish people."
tagline: "Kurdish writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Dost_2023.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1965-03-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.57
  momentum:             6.428571428571429
  historical:           7.011592
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Dost"
    title: "Jan Dost"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "جان دوست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "جان دوست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%DB%86%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "جان دۆست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Dost"
    title: "Jan Dost"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Dost"
    title: "Jan Dost"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA_(%D9%86%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87)"
    title: "جان دوست (نویسنده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Dost"
    title: "Jan Dost"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q836287"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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