# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/urmuz
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:00:06.465Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/urmuz"
name: "Urmuz"
slug: "urmuz"
description: "Urmuz was a Romanian writer, lawyer and civil servant, who became a cult hero in Romania's avant-garde scene. His scattered work, consisting of absurdist short prose and poetry, opened a new genre in Romanian letters and humor, and captured the imagination of modernists for several generations. Urmuz's Bizarre Pages were largely independent of European modernism, even though some may have been triggered by Futurism; their valorization of nonsense verse, black comedy, nihilistic tendencies and exploration into the unconscious mind have repeatedly been cited as influential for the development of Dadaism and the Theatre of the Absurd. Individual pieces such as \"The Funnel and Stamate\", \"Ismaïl and Turnavitu\", \"Algazy & Grummer\" or \"The Fuchsiad\" are parody fragments, dealing with monstrous and shapeshifting creatures in mundane settings, and announcing techniques later taken up by Surrealism."
tagline: "Romanian writer (1883–1923)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Urmuz_(1).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1883-03-17"
deathDate: "1923-11-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.75090133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ارموز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urmuz"
    title: "Urmuz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urmuz"
    title: "Urmuz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urmuz"
    title: "Urmuz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urmuz"
    title: "Urmuz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urmuz"
    title: "Urmuz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urmuz"
    title: "Urmuz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%88%D6%82%D6%80%D5%B4%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A6"
    title: "Ուրմուզ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urmuz"
    title: "Urmuz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urmuz"
    title: "Urmuz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urmuz"
    title: "Urmuz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%80%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7"
    title: "Урмуз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urmuz"
    title: "Urmuz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e23b27cb-268b-494a-89cb-a8b98f794552"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q279856"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump