# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-calaferte
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:01:36.460Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-calaferte"
name: "Louis Calaferte"
slug: "louis-calaferte"
description: "Louis Calaferte was an Italian-born French naturalized novelist. He was born in Turin, Italy, but emigrated to France with his parents when he was very young, settling in a Lyon suburb where he spent the majority of his childhood and adolescence. In 1947, he set out for Paris to pursue his dream of becoming an actor, where he found a love for writing instead. Over the span of his career, he published a variety of works, including “a fantastic profusion of novels, short stories, essays, plays, poems and erotica of a particularly distinguished vulgarity that created genuine excitement in the most blase connoisseur”. This writing style resulted in a variety of literary prizes, including the Prix de l’Academie Française for Ebauche d’un autoportrait in 1983; for a collection of poems, Londoniennes in 1985; and for a collection of short stories, Promenades dans un parc in 1987. Calaferte died in Dijon, France on 2 May 1994."
tagline: "French writer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/goimZgH8y09rG4IzFaUJbJ67cDX.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1928-07-14"
deathDate: "1994-05-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.04
  momentum:             0.3036238981390794
  historical:           7.704538666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0129261/"
    handle:    "nm0129261"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Calaferte"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%89"
    title: "لويس كالافيرتى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Calaferte"
    title: "Louis Calaferte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Calaferte"
    title: "Louis Calaferte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Calaferte"
    title: "Louis Calaferte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Calaferte"
    title: "Louis Calaferte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Calaferte"
    title: "Louis Calaferte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Calaferte"
    title: "Louis Calaferte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3261403"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1270470"
    title: "Louis Calaferte"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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