# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-theroux
# Generated: 2026-08-20T17:16:34.604Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-theroux"
name: "Peter Theroux"
slug: "peter-theroux"
description: "Peter Christopher Sebastian Theroux is an American translator and writer. The younger brother of writers Alexander Theroux and Paul Theroux, during college Peter studied for a year at the University of Cairo. He became interested in Arabic literature and has made it his life's work. He has translated numerous works of both historic and chiefly contemporary fiction by Egyptian, Iraqi and Lebanese authors. In addition, he has written articles and published a travel book, Sandstorms (1990), about his extensive travels in the Middle East."
tagline: "American writer and translator"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.22
  momentum:             4.776354236907171
  historical:           4.169997333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "بيتر ثيروكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيتر ثيروكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Theroux"
    title: "Peter Theroux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%98%D7%A8_%D7%AA'%D7%A8%D7%95"
    title: "פיטר ת'רו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7177287"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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