# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/keng-vannsak
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:11:10.306Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/keng-vannsak"
name: "Keng Vannsak"
slug: "keng-vannsak"
description: "Keng Vannsak was a Cambodian scholar, philosopher and Khmer linguist. He invented the Khmer typewriter keyboard in 1952. He lived in exile in Paris, France, from 1970 until his death in 2008. He died at the age of eighty-three at the hospital of Montmorency in the outskirts of Paris after suffering from a chronic illness."
tagline: "Cambodian writer (1925–2008)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Kengvannsak.jpeg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925-09-19"
deathDate: "2008-12-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.35
  momentum:             0.2277904328018223
  historical:           7.682830666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Keng Vannsak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keng_Vannsak"
    title: "Keng Vannsak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keng_Vannsak"
    title: "Keng Vannsak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keng_Vannsak"
    title: "Keng Vannsak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keng_Vannsak"
    title: "Keng Vannsak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Կենգ Վաննսակ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%80%E1%9F%81%E1%9E%84_%E1%9E%9C%E1%9F%89%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%93%E1%9F%8B%E1%9E%9F%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%80%E1%9F%8B"
    title: "កេង វ៉ាន់សាក់"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B3_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BA"
    title: "Кенг Ваннсак"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%87_%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%81"
    title: "เกง วันสัก"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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