# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michele-mari
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:26:20.910Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michele-mari"
name: "Michele Mari"
slug: "michele-mari"
description: "Michele Mari is an Italian novelist, short story writer, academic critic and poet, considered one of Italy's most esteemed and original living authors. The son of a Milanese industrial designer and artist, Enzo Mari, Mari teaches Italian literature at the Università Statale di Milano; he is considered one of the leading experts of 18th century Italian literature. English translations of his work have won the O. Henry Prize, two PEN Translates Awards, and the 2025 PEN Translation Prize."
tagline: "Italian writer and philologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michele_Mari.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-12-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.29
  momentum:             25
  historical:           7.544641333333334
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michele_Mari"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "ميشيل مارى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Mari"
    title: "Michele Mari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Mari"
    title: "Michele Mari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Mari"
    title: "Michele Mari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA"
    title: "ミケーレ・マーリ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Mari"
    title: "Michael Mari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3311300"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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