# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kobo-abe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:07:42.456Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kobo-abe"
name: "Kōbō Abe"
slug: "kobo-abe"
description: "Kimifusa Abe , known by his pen name Kōbō Abe , was a Japanese writer, playwright and director. His 1962 novel The Woman in the Dunes was made into an award-winning film by Hiroshi Teshigahara in 1964. Abe has often been compared to Franz Kafka for his modernist sensibilities and his surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in contemporary society. He died aged 68 of heart failure in Tokyo after a brief illness."
tagline: "Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kobo_Abe_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1924-03-07"
deathDate: "1993-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           59.43
  momentum:             0.3531486579490708
  historical:           24.466484
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0008356/"
    handle:    "nm0008356"
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    title: "Discogs"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump