# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vahur-afanasjev
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:33:34.076Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vahur-afanasjev"
name: "Vahur Afanasjev"
slug: "vahur-afanasjev"
description: "Vahur Afanasjev was an Estonian novelist, poet, musician and film director best known for his novel Serafima and Bogdan a story following the lives in a village of Russian Orthodox Old Believers on the shore of the lake Peipus from the end of the World War II to the nineties. The novel won the 2017 Estonian Writers' Union's Novel Competition."
tagline: "Estonian writer, filmmaker and musician (1979–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Afanasjev%2CVahur.IMG_3855.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1979-08-24"
deathDate: "2021-05-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.670806666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ڤاهور افاناسچيڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Βαχούρ Αφανάσιεφ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vahur_Afanasjev"
    title: "Vahur Afanasjev"
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  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vahur_Afanasjev"
    title: "Vahur Afanasjev"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vahur_Afanasjev"
    title: "Vahur Afanasjev"
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    title: "Վահուր Աֆանասև"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vahur_Afanasjev"
    title: "Vahur Afanasjev"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump