# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-caillois
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:47:32.894Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-caillois"
name: "Roger Caillois"
slug: "roger-caillois"
description: "Roger Caillois was a French intellectual and prolific writer whose original work brought together literary criticism, sociology, poetry, ludology and philosophy by focusing on very diverse subjects such as games, surrealism, south-American literature, the mineral world, dreams and images, ethnology, the history of religions and the sacred. He was also instrumental in introducing Latin American authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda and Miguel Ángel Asturias to the French public. After his death, the French Literary award Prix Roger Caillois was named after him in 1991."
tagline: "French author and philosopher (1913-1978)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1913-03-03"
deathDate: "1978-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump