# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sevan-nisanyan
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:50:15.040Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sevan-nisanyan"
name: "Sevan Nişanyan"
slug: "sevan-nisanyan"
description: "Sevan Nişanyan is a Turkish-Armenian writer, fugitive and lexicographer. Author of a number of books, Nişanyan was awarded the Ayşe Nur Zarakolu Liberty Award of the Turkish Human Rights Association in 2004 for his contributions to greater freedom of speech. He is also known for his work to restore Şirince, a semi-derelict village near Turkey's Aegean coast."
tagline: "Turkish lexicographer and writer of Armenian ancestry (born 1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sevan_Nishanyan_ICM_2018_(43047074585)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-12-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.25660266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/RabighTufaili"
    handle:    "RabighTufaili"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Nisanyan"
    handle:    "Nisanyan"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "سيفان نيشانيان"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sevan Nişanyan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%AAvan_N%C4%B1%C5%9Fanyan"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sevan Nişanyan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سوان نشانیان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sevan Nişanyan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Սևան Նիշանյան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Սեւան Նշանեան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sevan Nişanyan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sevan Nişanyan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sevan Nisanyan"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump