# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pierre-versins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:54:28.905Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pierre-versins"
name: "Pierre Versins"
slug: "pierre-versins"
description: "Pierre Versins was a French Science Fiction collector and scholar. From 1957-62, he published a critical fanzine, Ailleurs. He published four science fiction novels between 1951 and 1971, including En avant, Mars, Les etoiles ne s'en foutent pas, Leprofesseur, and Les transhumains. His ex-wife, Martine Thome, is credited on the short story \"Ceux d'Argos\".\nVersins always specified that Thome's name appears on this particular short story because it was initially her idea, yet written entirely by Versins himself, in his personal style. \nVersins published Encyclopedie de Utopie et de la sf, which won a special award at Torcon II, the 1973 Worldcon and he won a Pilgrim Award from the Science Fiction Research Association in 1991. In 1975, he founded the Maison d'Ailleurs, a museum of science fiction, utopia and extraordinary journey in Yverdon-les-Bains, (Switzerland). During World War II, Versins was incarcerated in Auschwitz."
tagline: "French writer (1923–2001)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/PIERRE_VERSINS%2C_HIS_LIFE%2C_HIS_WORK.webm/330px--PIERRE_VERSINS%2C_HIS_LIFE%2C_HIS_WORK.webm.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-01-12"
deathDate: "2001-04-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15.14598540145985
  historical:           4.605004
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Pierre Versins"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Versins"
    title: "Pierre Versins"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Versins"
    title: "Pierre Versins"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Versins"
    title: "Pierre Versins"
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  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Versins"
    title: "Pierre Versins"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3387270"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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