# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-kott
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:36:00.205Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-kott"
name: "Jan Kott"
slug: "jan-kott"
description: "Jan Kott was a Polish political activist, critic and theoretician of the theatre. A leading proponent of Stalinism in Poland for nearly a decade after the Soviet takeover, Kott renounced his Communist Party membership in 1957 following the anti-Stalinist Polish October of 1956. He defected to the United States in 1965. He is regarded as having considerable influence upon Western productions of Shakespeare in the second half of the 20th century."
tagline: "Polish writer (1914–2001)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Jan_Kott_%281950s%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1914-10-27"
deathDate: "2001-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.99
  momentum:             6.75
  historical:           17.56659733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Jan Kott"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump