# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-myrdal
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:35:47.830Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-myrdal"
name: "Jan Myrdal"
slug: "jan-myrdal"
description: "Jan Myrdal was a Swedish author known for his strident Maoist, anti-imperialist and contrarian views and heterodox and highly subjective style of autobiography."
tagline: "Swedish writer (1927–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_myrdal.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1927-07-19"
deathDate: "2020-10-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump