# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leons-briedis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:41:16.066Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leons-briedis"
name: "Leons Briedis"
slug: "leons-briedis"
description: "Leons Briedis was a Latvian poet, a novelist, an essayist, a literary critic and publisher, translator of prose and poetry from Latin, Russian, English, Romance languages, Swahili, Albanian and other languages. He was also an author of several musicals produced on the radio and staged at the biggest theatres in Latvia, script writer wrote much for children, author of song texts, translated 10 plays staged at Latvian theatres and rendered in verse opera librettos."
tagline: "Latvian writer (1949-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leons_Briedis.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-12-16"
deathDate: "2020-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.1
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.735961333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1516211"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ليونس بريديس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leons_Briedis"
    title: "Leons Briedis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leons_Briedis"
    title: "Leons Briedis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonas_Briedis"
    title: "Leonas Briedis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leons_Briedis"
    title: "Leons Briedis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leons_Briedis"
    title: "Leons Briedis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leons_Briedis"
    title: "Leons Briedis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leons_Briedis"
    title: "Leons Briedis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/08afaebc-8a11-479c-8ef7-bbbaf79f9da2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6526732"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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