# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leyla-erbil
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:26:54.347Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leyla-erbil"
name: "Leyla Erbil"
slug: "leyla-erbil"
description: "Leyla Erbil was a Turkish writer. She was one of the leading female contemporary writers of Turkey, author of six novels, three collections of short stories and a book of essays. She was the first Turkish female writer to be nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature by PEN International in 2002. \nErbil was a co-founder of the Union of Turkish Artists and the Writers Syndicate of Turkey."
tagline: "Turkish writer (1931–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leyla_Erbil_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-01-12"
deathDate: "2013-07-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.59968133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ليلى اربيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leyla Ərbil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лейла Ербил"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "লায়লা এরবিল"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leyla Erbil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leyla Erbil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leyla Erbil"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Эрбиль, Лейла"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leylâ Erbil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leyla Erbil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лейла Ербіль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leyla Erbil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leyla Erbil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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