# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yasar-kemal
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:55:13.085Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yasar-kemal"
name: "Yaşar Kemal"
slug: "yasar-kemal"
description: "Yaşar Kemal was a leading Turkish writer of Kurdish descent, who wrote in Turkish and a human rights activist. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of his 1955 novel Memed, My Hawk."
tagline: "Kurdish writer and human rights activist (1923–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Y%C4%B1lmaz_B%C3%BCy%C3%BCker%C5%9Fen_wax_Museum_(Ya%C5%9Far_Kemal).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1923-10-06"
deathDate: "2015-02-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump