# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/xose-luis-mendez-ferrin
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:01:53.377Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/xose-luis-mendez-ferrin"
name: "Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín"
slug: "xose-luis-mendez-ferrin"
description: "Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín is a Galician writer and poet and is widely considered the highest representative of contemporary Galician literature. A doctor in philology, he studied philosophy at the University of Santiago de Compostela and Romanic philology at the University of Madrid."
tagline: "Spanish writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ferrin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-08-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.491182666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xos%C3%A9_Lu%C3%ADs_M%C3%A9ndez_Ferr%C3%ADn"
    title: "Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xos%C3%A9_Luis_M%C3%A9ndez_Ferr%C3%ADn"
    title: "Xosé Luis Méndez Ferrín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xos%C3%A9_Lu%C3%ADs_M%C3%A9ndez_Ferr%C3%ADn"
    title: "Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xos%C3%A9_Lu%C3%ADs_M%C3%A9ndez_Ferr%C3%ADn"
    title: "Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xos%C3%A9_Lu%C3%ADs_M%C3%A9ndez_Ferr%C3%ADn"
    title: "Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xos%C3%A9_Lu%C3%ADs_M%C3%A9ndez_Ferr%C3%ADn"
    title: "Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xos%C3%A9_Lu%C3%ADs_M%C3%A9ndez_Ferr%C3%ADn"
    title: "Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xos%C3%A9_Lu%C3%ADs_M%C3%A9ndez_Ferr%C3%ADn"
    title: "Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2744512"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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