# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/c-buddingh
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:40:14.473Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/c-buddingh"
name: "C. Buddingh'"
slug: "c-buddingh"
description: "Cornelis \"Kees\" Buddingh' was a Dutch poet, TV-presenter, translator. Amongst others he translated A Clockwork Orange and the complete works of William Shakespeare into Dutch. His son Wiebe Buddingh‘ later became the translator of Harry Potter into the Dutch language. The C. Buddingh'-prijs literary award is named after him."
tagline: "Dutch poet and translator (1918–1985)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cees_Buddingh_in_Hadimassa.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-08-07"
deathDate: "1985-11-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.083802666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.buddingh-genootschap.nl"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "سى. بودينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "C. Buddingh'"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Buddingh'"
    title: "C. Buddingh'"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_Buddingh"
    title: "Cornelis Buddingh"
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  - url: "https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Buddingh'"
    title: "C. Buddingh'"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Buddingh'"
    title: "C. Buddingh'"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._Buddingh'"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump