# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-ponican
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:59:41.837Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-ponican"
name: "Ján Poničan"
slug: "jan-ponican"
description: "Ján Poničan was a Slovak poet, novelist, lawyer, playwright and translator."
tagline: "Czechoslovak poet, playwright, translator, writer and children books writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_ponican-jan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1902-06-15"
deathDate: "1978-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.04
  momentum:             1.86046511627907
  historical:           7.001836
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Ян Понічан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1n_Poni%C4%8Dan"
    title: "Ján Poničan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1n_Poni%C4%8Dan"
    title: "Ján Poničan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "یان پونیچان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%85%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%8A%D5%B8%D5%B6%D5%AB%D5%B9%D5%A1%D5%B6"
    title: "Յան Պոնիչան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1n_Poni%C4%8Dan"
    title: "Ján Poničan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BD"
    title: "Поничан, Ян"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1n_Poni%C4%8Dan_(prozaik)"
    title: "Ján Poničan (prozaik)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12768607"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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