# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manuel-rui
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:28:17.475Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/manuel-rui"
name: "Manuel Rui"
slug: "manuel-rui"
description: "Manuel Rui Alves Monteiro is an Angolan writer of poetry, novels, theater plays, and short stories. He has been described as \"the chronicler par excellence of postindependence Angola\" through fiction that offers \"subtle, complex, pointed, and oftentimes humorous portrayals of Angola since the early years of the MPLA euphoria, in which he played a political role.\""
tagline: "Angolan writer and translator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lipsia_e_manuel_rui_monteiro.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-11-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.217676
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Manuel_Rui"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A"
    title: "مانويل روي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%89"
    title: "مانويل روى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Rui"
    title: "Manuel Rui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Rui"
    title: "Manuel Rui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Rui"
    title: "Manuel Rui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Rui"
    title: "Manuel Rui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Rui"
    title: "Manuel Rui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Rui"
    title: "Manuel Rui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Rui"
    title: "Manuel Rui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Rui_Monteiro"
    title: "Manuel Rui Monteiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6083115"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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