# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tahir-hamut
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:11:55.363Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tahir-hamut"
name: "Tahir Hamut"
slug: "tahir-hamut"
description: "Tahir Hamut Izgil is a modernist Uyghur poet, filmmaker, and author. A leader in avant-garde Uyghur poetry in the 1990s, he is known for poems and films strongly influenced by Uyghur life. Originally from Xinjiang, he is currently living in exile in the United States. His experiences as an intellectual during the rounding up of Uyghurs and his emigration to the west is described in his memoir Waiting to Be Arrested at Night, published in 2023."
tagline: "Uyghur poet and film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tahir_Hamut_Izgil.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1969"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.02
  momentum:             1.743589743589743
  historical:           5.483154666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 2490
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/hamuttahir"
    handle:    "hamuttahir"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp6ekWXaeTb-5LhbFRaeYzA"
    handle:    "@tahirhamutizgil9815"
    followers: 2490
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahir_Hamut_Izgil"
    title: "Tahir Hamut Izgil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahir_Hamut_Izgil"
    title: "Tahir Hamut Izgil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahir_Hamut_Izgil"
    title: "Tahir Hamut Izgil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A1%94%E4%BE%9D%E7%88%BE%C2%B7%E5%93%88%E6%9C%A8%E6%8F%90%C2%B7%E4%BC%8A%E8%8C%B2%E6%A0%BC%E7%88%BE"
    title: "塔依爾·哈木提·伊茲格爾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahir_Hamut_Izgil"
    title: "Tahir Hamut Izgil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahir_Hamut_Izgil"
    title: "Tahir Hamut Izgil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99955181"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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