# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shan-sa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:18:13.693Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shan-sa"
name: "Shan Sa"
slug: "shan-sa"
description: "Shan Sa is the pseudonym of Yan Ni, a French author and painter. The Girl Who Played Go was the first of her novels to be published outside France, and won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens. Her second novel to appear in English translation was Empress (2006). She was awarded chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in July 2009 and chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite in May 2011."
tagline: "French author and painter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shan_Sa_internet_3.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1972-10-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.93
  momentum:             2.651162790697674
  historical:           18.834848
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4086318/"
    handle:    "nm4086318"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "شان سا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شان سا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_Sa"
    title: "Shan Sa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_Sa"
    title: "Shan Sa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_Sa"
    title: "Shan Sa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_Sa"
    title: "Shan Sa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_Sa"
    title: "Shan Sa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "شان سا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_Sa"
    title: "Shan Sa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_Sa"
    title: "Shan Sa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E9%A2%AF"
    title: "山颯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "샨사"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nov.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_Sa"
    title: "Shan Sa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_Sa"
    title: "Shan Sa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_Sa"
    title: "Shan Sa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%A1%D0%B0"
    title: "Шань Са"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Шань Са"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_Sa"
    title: "Shan Sa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E9%A3%92"
    title: "山飒"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q464802"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3105549"
    title: "Sabrina Shan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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