# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jaroslav-koran
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:22:28.503Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jaroslav-koran"
name: "Jaroslav Kořán"
slug: "jaroslav-koran"
description: "Jaroslav Kořán was a Czech translator, actor, writer, screenwriter, and politician. A dissident and signatory of Charter 77 during Czechoslovakia's Communist era, Kořán translated over seven dozen books, mostly by American writers, from English into Czech, including major works by Kurt Vonnegut, Henry Miller, Roald Dahl, Ken Kesey, Charles Bukowski, John Kennedy Toole, and John Wyndham."
tagline: "Czech translator (1940–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ko%C5%99%C3%A1n-Jaroslav.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1940-01-17"
deathDate: "2017-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.57
  momentum:             10.84841628959276
  historical:           6.402844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1293148/"
    handle:    "nm1293148"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%DA%A4_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "چاروسلاڤ كوران"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Ko%C5%99%C3%A1n"
    title: "Jaroslav Kořán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Ko%C5%99%C3%A1n"
    title: "Jaroslav Kořán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Ko%C5%99%C3%A1n"
    title: "Jaroslav Kořán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Ko%C5%99%C3%A1n"
    title: "Jaroslav Kořán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/11b80d0f-d01a-4e53-9860-b3b9300712ad"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12023878"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2709915"
    title: "Jaroslav Kořán"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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