# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/miguel-barnet
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:32:50.838Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/miguel-barnet"
name: "Miguel Barnet"
slug: "miguel-barnet"
description: "Miguel Ángel Barnet Lanza is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer. Known as an expert on Afro-Cuban culture, he studied sociology at the University of Havana, under Fernando Ortiz, the pioneer of Cuban anthropology. Barnet is best known for his Biografia de un cimarrón (1966), the life of Esteban Montejo, a former slave who was 103 when they met. He had escaped and lived as a marron before slavery was abolished in Cuba."
tagline: "Cuban writer (born 1940)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-01-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.8315098468271334
  historical:           12.28448666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0055832/"
    handle:    "nm0055832"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ميجويل بارنيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Miguel Barnet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Miguel Ángel Barnet Lanza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Barnet"
    title: "Miguel Barnet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Barnet"
    title: "Miguel Barnet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Barnet"
    title: "Miguel Barnet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Barnet"
    title: "Miguel Barnet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Barnet"
    title: "Miguel Barnet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Barnet"
    title: "Miguel Barnet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Barnet"
    title: "Miguel Barnet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Барнет, Мигель"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Miguel Barnet"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump