# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erling-jepsen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:28:52.526Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erling-jepsen"
name: "Erling Jepsen"
slug: "erling-jepsen"
description: "Erling Jepsen is a Danish author and playwright whose output primarily deals with his hometown of Gram and the culture in the surrounding region of Southern Jutland. His novel Frygtelig lykkelig was adapted into the 2008 neo-noir thriller Terribly Happy, and his autobiographical novel Kunsten at Græde i Kor (The Art of Crying) was adapted into the 2006 film The Art of Crying."
tagline: "Danish playwright, novelist and screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erling_Jepsen%2C_October_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-05-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.404032
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0421845/"
    handle:    "nm0421845"
sources:
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    title: "Erling Jepsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "إرلينغ جيبسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "ارلينج جيبسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Jepsen"
    title: "Erling Jepsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Jepsen"
    title: "Erling Jepsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Jepsen"
    title: "Erling Jepsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Jepsen"
    title: "Erling Jepsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Jepsen"
    title: "Erling Jepsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Jepsen"
    title: "Erling Jepsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Jepsen"
    title: "Erling Jepsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1788316"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/937649"
    title: "Erling Jepsen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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