# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/varlam-shalamov
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:54:20.479Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/varlam-shalamov"
name: "Varlam Shalamov"
slug: "varlam-shalamov"
description: "Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov, baptized as Varlaam, was a Russian writer, journalist, poet, and Gulag survivor. He spent much of the period from 1937 to 1951 imprisoned in forced-labor camps in the Arctic region of Kolyma, due in part to his support of Leon Trotsky and praise of writer Ivan Bunin. In 1946, near death, he became a medical assistant while still a prisoner. He remained in that role for the duration of his sentence, then for another two years after being released, until 1953."
tagline: "Soviet writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Varlam_Shalamov-NKVD_crooped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1907-06-05"
deathDate: "1982-01-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.226148
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0787706/"
    handle:    "nm0787706"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://shalamov.ru/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ڤارلام شالاموڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Varlam Calamov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varlam_%C5%9Ealamov"
    title: "Varlam Şalamov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Варлам Ціханавіч Шаламаў"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Варлам Шаламов"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ভার্লাম শালামভ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Varlam Chalamov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varlam_Xal%C3%A0mov"
    title: "Varlam Xalàmov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Varlam Tichonovič Šalamov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Шаламов Варлам Тихонович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Warlam Tichonowitsch Schalamow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Varlam Shalamov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Varlam Tiĥonoviĉ Ŝalamov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varlam_Shal%C3%A1mov"
    title: "Varlam Shalámov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varlam_%C5%A0alamov"
    title: "Varlam Šalamov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varlam_Xalamov"
    title: "Varlam Xalamov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وارلام شالاموف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varlam_%C5%A0alamov"
    title: "Varlam Šalamov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Varlam Chalamov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "וארלאם שאלאמוב"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Warlam Tichonowič Šalamow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Varlam Tyihonovics Salamov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Վառլամ Շալամով"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"

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