# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mateo-maximoff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:26:20.547Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mateo-maximoff"
name: "Matéo Maximoff"
slug: "mateo-maximoff"
description: "Matéo Maximoff was a French writer and Evangelical pastor of Romani ethnicity. His eleven books have been translated into fourteen languages. Born in Spain, he had parents who had migrated from Russia and France. His family sought shelter in France with relatives during the Spanish Civil War. After the outbreak of World War II, they were arrested as foreign nationals and interned for years, along with many other foreign refugees. He settled in France after the war and made his literary career there."
tagline: "French writer (1917–1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RetratoMM.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1917-01-17"
deathDate: "1999-11-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.28916666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Матео Максимов"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Matéo Maximoff"
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    title: "Ματέο Μαξίμοφ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Matéo Maximoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mateo_Maximoff"
    title: "Mateo Maximoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat%C3%A9o_Maximoff"
    title: "Matéo Maximoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat%C3%A9o_Maximoff"
    title: "Matéo Maximoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat%C3%A9o_Maximoff"
    title: "Matéo Maximoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%97%E1%83%94%E1%83%9D_%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%A5%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%9B%E1%83%9D%E1%83%95%E1%83%98"
    title: "მათეო მაქსიმოვი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Матео Максимов"
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    title: "Matéo Maximoff"
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  - url: "https://rmy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mateo_Maximov"
    title: "Mateo Maximov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat%C3%A9o_Maximoff"
    title: "Matéo Maximoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Максимов, Матео"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Матео Максимов"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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