# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sholeh-wolpe
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:15:41.558Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sholeh-wolpe"
name: "Sholeh Wolpe"
slug: "sholeh-wolpe"
description: "Sholeh Wolpé is an Iranian and American award-winning poet, author, playwright, librettist, and literary translator. She was born in Iran, writes in English, and translates literature from Persian. Her literary work includes seven collections of poetry, several plays, five books of translations and three anthologies, as well as short stories and texts and librettos for the choir and opera. She is the Writer-In-Residence at the University of California, Irvine."
tagline: "Iranian writer (born 1962)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sholeh_Wolpe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962-03-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.04
  momentum:             0.101010101010101
  historical:           5.947733333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ഷോലെ വോൾപി"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%87_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%BE%DB%8C"
    title: "شعله ولپی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%87_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%BE%DB%8C"
    title: "شعله ولپی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholeh_Wolp%C3%A9"
    title: "Sholeh Wolpé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholeh_Wolp%C3%A9"
    title: "Sholeh Wolpé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholeh_Wolp%C3%A9"
    title: "Sholeh Wolpé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%87_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%BE%DB%8C"
    title: "شعله ولپی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7500222"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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