# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sylvain-tesson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:58:04.259Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sylvain-tesson"
name: "Sylvain Tesson"
slug: "sylvain-tesson"
description: "Sylvain Tesson is a French writer and traveller born in Paris. He has engaged in a number of unusual travels and expeditions which are the basis for his books. Among his most successful works are The Consolations of the Forest (2011), about a project to live alone in a Siberian cabin for six months and The Art of Patience (2019), about the quest for snow leopards in Tibet. For the latter book, he received the Prix Renaudot."
tagline: "French writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sylvain_Tesson_-_Com%C3%A9die_du_Livre_2011_-_Montpellier_-_P1160238.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1972-04-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.25
  momentum:             7.196015984981345
  historical:           19.053828
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2159321"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump