# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rene-philombe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:25:41.005Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rene-philombe"
name: "René Philombe"
slug: "rene-philombe"
description: "René Philombé, pen name of Philippe Louis Ombedé, born in the city of Ngaoundéré, was a Cameroonian writer, journalist, poet, novelist, and playwright who mostly wrote in French. He was one of the founders of the Association of Cameroonian Poets and Writers (APEC) of which he was the secretary for 20 years. He received the Mottart Prize from the Académie Française and the Fonlon-Nichols prize from the African Literature Association."
tagline: "Cameroonian poet (1930-2001)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-11-13"
deathDate: "2001-10-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.36
  momentum:             0.5405405405405406
  historical:           5.475090666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Philombe"
    title: "René Philombe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Philomb%C3%A9"
    title: "René Philombé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Philomb%C3%A9"
    title: "René Philombé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Philombe"
    title: "René Philombe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Philomb%C3%A9"
    title: "René Philombé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Philomb%C3%A9"
    title: "René Philombé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12266506"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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