# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rene-depestre
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:32:57.799Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rene-depestre"
name: "René Depestre"
slug: "rene-depestre"
description: "René Depestre is a Haitian-French poet and former communist activist. He is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in Haitian literature. He lived in Cuba as an exile from the Duvalier regime for many years and was a founder of the Casa de las Américas publishing house. He is best known for his poetry."
tagline: "Haitian poet and former communist activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ren%C3%A9_Depestre_(25-02-2017).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1926-08-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.75
  momentum:             17.28531855955679
  historical:           17.65461733333333
  currentAttention:     2.92
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220074/"
    handle:    "nm0220074"
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    title: "René Depestre"
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    title: "René Depestre"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump