# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-torday
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:15:21.339Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-torday"
name: "Paul Torday"
slug: "paul-torday"
description: "Paul Torday was a British writer and the author of the comic novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. The book was the winner of the 2007 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing and was serialised on BBC Radio 4. It won the Waverton Good Read Award in 2008. It was made into a 2011 feature film of the same name, starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt."
tagline: "British writer (1946–2013)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-08-01"
deathDate: "2013-12-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.27
  momentum:             3.719008264462809
  historical:           11.420448
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3468186/"
    handle:    "nm3468186"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Пол Тордей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Torday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Torday"
    title: "Paul Torday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Torday"
    title: "Paul Torday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Torday"
    title: "Paul Torday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Torday"
    title: "Paul Torday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Torday"
    title: "Paul Torday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Torday"
    title: "Paul Torday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Torday"
    title: "Paul Torday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3"
    title: "ポール・トーディ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Torday"
    title: "Paul Torday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Torday"
    title: "Paul Torday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Torday"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q949363"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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