# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tomas-venclova
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:00:39.678Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tomas-venclova"
name: "Tomas Venclova"
slug: "tomas-venclova"
description: "Tomas Venclova is a Lithuanian poet, prose writer, scholar, philologist and translator of literature. He is one of the five founding members of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. In 1977, following his dissident activities, he was forced to emigrate and was deprived of his Soviet citizenship. Since 1980, he has taught Russian and Polish literature at Yale University. Considered a major figure in world literature, he has received many awards, including the Prize of Two Nations, and The Person of Tolerance of the Year Award from the Sugihara Foundation, among other honors."
tagline: "Lithuanian poet and scholar (born 1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wp_venclova.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-09-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             1.290027447392498
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump