# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valentin-kurbatov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:12:38.769Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valentin-kurbatov"
name: "Valentin Kurbatov"
slug: "valentin-kurbatov"
description: "Valentin Yakovlevich Kurbatov was a Russian literary critic, prose writer, jury member of the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award, member of the Writers' Union of Russia. He was also member of the Public Chamber of Russia from 2010 to 2014 and member of the Presidential Council for Culture. He was holder of the Medal of Pushkin, Order of Friendship and laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2020) in the field of literature."
tagline: "Russian writer (1939–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Valentin_Kurbatov_2020-06-24.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-09-29"
deathDate: "2021-03-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.37
  momentum:             1.480263157894737
  historical:           3.945897333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/curbatov.valentin"
    handle:    "curbatov.valentin"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "فالنتين كورباتوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Kurbatov"
    title: "Valentin Kurbatov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Курбатов, Валентин Яковлевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Kurbatov"
    title: "Valentin Kurbatov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4247899"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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