# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-kanturek
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:43:41.805Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-kanturek"
name: "Jan Kantůrek"
slug: "jan-kanturek"
description: "Jan Kantůrek was a Czech translator and writer. His most known translations are Discworld by Terry Pratchett and books about Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard and his successors."
tagline: "Czech translator (1948-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Kanturek.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-05-04"
deathDate: "2018-03-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.72
  momentum:             7.5
  historical:           5.268214666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Kant%C5%AFrek"
    title: "Jan Kantůrek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "چان كانتوريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Kant%C5%AFrek"
    title: "Jan Kantůrek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Kant%C5%AFrek"
    title: "Jan Kantůrek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Kant%C5%AFrek"
    title: "Jan Kantůrek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Kant%C5%AFrek"
    title: "Jan Kantůrek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12022652"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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