# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenji-maruyama
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:05:31.715Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenji-maruyama"
name: "Kenji Maruyama"
slug: "kenji-maruyama"
description: "Kenji Maruyama  is a Japanese author. He received the Akutagawa Prize for one of his novels, Summer’s Passage , in 1966, at the age of 23, becoming the third of an often touted group of college seniors to win the prize at age 23, following Ishihara Shintaro and Oe Kenzaburo."
tagline: "Japanese writer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/agvBMebb1avexp7ZKgPA1cFI2x5.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-12-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.34
  momentum:             7.526237807136685
  historical:           7.47344
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/maruyamakenji"
    handle:    "maruyamakenji"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1401420/"
    handle:    "nm1401420"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83%D1%8F%D0%BC%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9A%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B8"
    title: "Маруяма, Кэндзи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%8A_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "كينجي مارويوما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Maruyama_(Autor)"
    title: "Kenji Maruyama (Autor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Maruyama"
    title: "Kenji Maruyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Maruyama"
    title: "Kenji Maruyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%B8%E5%B1%B1%E5%81%A5%E4%BA%8C"
    title: "丸山健二"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EB%A3%A8%EC%95%BC%EB%A7%88_%EA%B2%90%EC%A7%80"
    title: "마루야마 겐지"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2026468"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1695715"
    title: "Kenji Maruyama"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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