# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenji-nakagami
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:48:46.680Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenji-nakagami"
name: "Kenji Nakagami"
slug: "kenji-nakagami"
description: "Kenji Nakagami was a Japanese writer, critic, and poet. He was one of the most prominent and influential Japanese writers of the post-war era, known for his novels, short stories, and essays that powerfully depicted the lives of Japan's burakumin outcaste community. Born into a buraku in Shingū, Wakayama, Nakagami was the first writer from this background to win the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, which he received in 1976 for his novella The Cape."
tagline: "Japanese writer (1946–1992)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Kenji_Nakagami_in_1986.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-08-02"
deathDate: "1992-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.911112
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E4%B8%8A%E5%81%A5%E6%AC%A1"
    title: "中上健次"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%8A_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A"
    title: "كينجي ناكاغامي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Nakagami"
    title: "Kenji Nakagami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Nakagami"
    title: "Kenji Nakagami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Nakagami"
    title: "Kenji Nakagami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Nakagami"
    title: "Kenji Nakagami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Nakagami"
    title: "Kenji Nakagami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakagami_Kendzsi"
    title: "Nakagami Kendzsi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E4%B8%8A%E5%81%A5%E6%AC%A1"
    title: "中上健次"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%9E%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9A%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BF"
    title: "കെഞ്ചി നകഗാമി"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9A%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B8"
    title: "Накагами, Кэндзи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922345"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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