# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-pistanek
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:53:11.873Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-pistanek"
name: "Peter Pišťanek"
slug: "peter-pistanek"
description: "Peter Pišťanek was a Slovak writer. He began publishing short stories in the 1980s, and his first novel, Rivers of Babylon, came out in 1991. This was adapted into a film of the same name in 1998 by Vladimir Balco. The book was followed by the sequels Wooden Village (1994) and End of Freddy (1999). Two more of Pišťanek's works were adapted to film, both by Juraj Nvota: his short story \"Muzika\", which won Best Film at the Sun in a Net Awards in 2008, and his novel Rukojemník – Lokomotívy v daždi, in 2014. Pišťanek committed suicide on 22 March 2015."
tagline: "Slovak writer"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1960-04-28"
deathDate: "2015-03-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.57471264367816
  historical:           15.13995733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0685546"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump