# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jose-manuel-castanon
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:55:39.299Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jose-manuel-castanon"
name: "José Manuel Castañón"
slug: "jose-manuel-castanon"
description: "José Manuel Castañón was a Spanish writer born in Pola de Lena, Asturias. Although he fought in Francisco Franco’s 1936 military uprising, he later distanced himself from Franco's regime and in 1957 left for a 20-year exile to Venezuela. His best-known novel Moletu-Voleva, published in Madrid in 1956, a story about lust for money."
tagline: "Spanish writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JoseMCastanon.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1920-02-10"
deathDate: "2001-06-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.88
  momentum:             3.5
  historical:           7.672498666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Casta%C3%B1%C3%B3n"
    title: "José Manuel Castañón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%87_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "خوسيه مانويل كاستانيون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Casta%C3%B1%C3%B3n"
    title: "José Manuel Castañón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Casta%C3%B1%C3%B3n"
    title: "José Manuel Castañón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A7%CE%BF%CF%83%CE%AD_%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%AD%CE%BB_%CE%9A%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B9%CF%8C%CE%BD"
    title: "Χοσέ Μανουέλ Καστανιόν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Casta%C3%B1%C3%B3n"
    title: "José Manuel Castañón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Casta%C3%B1%C3%B3n"
    title: "José Manuel Castañón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Casta%C3%B1%C3%B3n"
    title: "José Manuel Castañón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Casta%C3%B1%C3%B3n"
    title: "José Manuel Castañón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201134"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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