# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-popova
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:52:05.824Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-popova"
name: "Maria Popova"
slug: "maria-popova"
description: "Maria Popova is a Bulgarian-born, American-based essayist, book author, poet, and writer of literary and arts commentary and cultural criticism that has found wide appeal both for her writing and for the visual stylistics that accompany it."
tagline: "Bulgarian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maria_Popova.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1984-07-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.84
  momentum:             0.2316602316602316
  historical:           6.982448
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/brainpicker"
    handle:    "brainpicker"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/brainpicker/"
    handle:    "brainpicker"
sources:
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF_%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8A%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B5"
    title: "മരിയ പൊപോവ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Popova"
    title: "Maria Popova"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7"
    title: "ماريا بوبوفا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7"
    title: "ماريا بوبوفا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0_(%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80)"
    title: "Мария Попова (редактор)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Popova"
    title: "Maria Popova"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Popova"
    title: "Maria Popova"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "ماریا پوپووا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6761505"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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