# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yann-queffelec
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:41:29.560Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yann-queffelec"
name: "Yann Queffélec"
slug: "yann-queffelec"
description: "Yann Queffélec is a French author who won the Prix Goncourt in 1985 for his novel Les Noces barbares, translated into English as The Wedding or The Savage Wedding. He is the former husband of the late pianist Brigitte Engerer and the brother of musician Anne Queffélec. Their father was the writer Henri Queffélec."
tagline: "French writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yann_Queff%C3%A9lec_(2018).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-09-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.55820019563091
  historical:           13.09407333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0703109/"
    handle:    "nm0703109"
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    title: "يان كيفيليك"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yann Queffélec"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yann Queffélec"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yann Queffelec"
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    title: "Yann Queffélec"
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    title: "Yann Queffélec"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump