# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laurence-deonna
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:56:50.404Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laurence-deonna"
name: "Laurence Deonna"
slug: "laurence-deonna"
description: "Laurence Deonna was a Swiss journalist, writer and photographer who in the late 1960s became a celebrated war reporter in the Middle-East. In 1987, on the basis of her articles, books and photographs promoting international understanding and improvements to the status of women, she was awarded the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education. Deonna published 12 widely translated books."
tagline: "Swiss journalist and photographer (1937–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_de_Laurence_Deonna.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1937-01-29"
deathDate: "2023-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.135601333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Deonna"
    title: "Laurence Deonna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Deonna"
    title: "Laurence Deonna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "لاورينس ديونا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Deonna"
    title: "Laurence Deonna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Deonna"
    title: "Laurence Deonna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Deonna"
    title: "Laurence Deonna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Deonna"
    title: "Laurence Deonna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3218885"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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