# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/javier-garcia-sanchez
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:23:51.710Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/javier-garcia-sanchez"
name: "Javier García Sánchez"
slug: "javier-garcia-sanchez"
description: "Javier García Sánchez is a Spanish writer. Born in Barcelona in 1955, he studied at the Complutense University in Madrid. He edited the magazine Quimera for two years, and wrote in the culture pages of La Voz de Euskadi. He achieved literary success with his second novel La dama del viento sur, which won the Premio Pío Baroja and was translated into English by Michael Bradburn Ruster and Myrna R. Villa. He won the Premio Herralde with a later novel La historia más triste. His book on the champion road cyclist Miguel Indurain has been translated into English."
tagline: "Spanish writer and journalist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1955"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.88
  momentum:             6.5625
  historical:           5.271958666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Javier García Sánchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "خافيير غارسيا سانشيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "خافيير جارسيا سانشيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Garc%C3%ADa_S%C3%A1nchez"
    title: "Javier García Sánchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Garc%C3%ADa_S%C3%A1nchez"
    title: "Javier García Sánchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Garc%C3%ADa_S%C3%A1nchez"
    title: "Javier García Sánchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12260245"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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