# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/viktor-golyshev
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:50:06.597Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/viktor-golyshev"
name: "Viktor Golyshev"
slug: "viktor-golyshev"
description: "Viktor Petrovich Golyshev is a well-known English-to-Russian translator. His translations include Light in August, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, All the King's Men, Theophilus North, 1984, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Set This House on Fire, Pulp, and others. He has won the Foreign Literature and Illuminator awards. He has said about modern American literature, \"It isn't quite worthy of consideration. It has almost nothing to say about life.\""
tagline: "Russian translator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Victor_Golyshev_02.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-04-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           4.423796
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ڤيكتور جوليشيڤ"
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    title: "Голышев, Виктор Петрович"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump