# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sinan-antoon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:02:57.754Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sinan-antoon"
name: "Sinan Antoon"
slug: "sinan-antoon"
description: "Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi poet, novelist, scholar, and literary translator. He has been described as \"one of the most acclaimed authors of the Arab world.\" Alberto Manguel described him as \"one of the great fiction writers of our time.” He is an associate professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University."
tagline: "Iraqi writer and film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AntoonPic_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1967"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.34
  momentum:             1.077844311377245
  historical:           9.028152
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1847614/"
    handle:    "nm1847614"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://sinanantoon.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "سنان أنطون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سنان انطون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinan_Antoon"
    title: "Sinan Antoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinan_Antoon"
    title: "Sinan Antoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B7%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "سنان انطون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinan_Antoon"
    title: "Sinan Antoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D4%B1%D5%B6%D5%BF%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6"
    title: "Սինան Անտուն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinan_Antoon"
    title: "Sinan Antoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B7%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "سنان انطون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6801613"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2118938"
    title: "Sinan Antoon"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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