# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/salim-barakat
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:34:44.244Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/salim-barakat"
name: "Salim Barakat"
slug: "salim-barakat"
description: "Salim Barakat is a Kurdish-Syrian novelist and poet. He is considered one of the innovative poets and novelists writing in Arabic. Since the 1970s, he has published numerous novels, poetry collections, biographies and children's books. Several of his works have been translated into Kurdish, English, French, German, Swedish and other languages."
tagline: "Syrian-Swedish writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Salim_Barakat.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1951"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.81
  momentum:             6.509433962264151
  historical:           14.28549466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "سليم بركات"
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    title: "Salim Barakat"
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    title: "Salim Barakat"
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    title: "Salim Barakat"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump