# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tomaz-salamun
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:11:30.654Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tomaz-salamun"
name: "Tomaž Šalamun"
slug: "tomaz-salamun"
description: "Tomaž Šalamun was a Slovenian poet who was a leading figure of postwar neo-avant-garde poetry in Central Europe and an internationally acclaimed absurdist. His more than 50 books of Slovene poetry have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. His work has been called a poetic bridge between old European roots and America. Šalamun was a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He lived in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and was married to the painter Metka Krašovec."
tagline: "Slovene poet, born in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tomaz_Salamun.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-07-04"
deathDate: "2014-12-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.3800475059382423
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://tomazsalamun.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump