# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paco-ignacio-taibo-ii
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:20:52.483Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paco-ignacio-taibo-ii"
name: "Paco Ignacio Taibo II"
slug: "paco-ignacio-taibo-ii"
description: "Paco Ignacio Taibo II, also known as Paco Taibo II or informally as PIT is a Spanish-Mexican writer, novelist and political activist based in Mexico City. He is most widely known as the founder of the neopolicial genre of novel in Latin America and is also a prominent member of the international crime writing community. His Spanish language work has won numerous awards including two Latin American Dashiell Hammett Prizes. In 2018, Taibo was appointed as head of the Fondo de Cultura Económica by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador."
tagline: "Spanish-Mexican writer, novelist, journalist, and historian (born 1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PacoIgnaciobochum.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-01-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.3835227272727273
  historical:           16.10944
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "taibo2"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0846745/"
    handle:    "nm0846745"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump