# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ferdinand-bordewijk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:31:22.212Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ferdinand-bordewijk"
name: "Ferdinand Bordewijk"
slug: "ferdinand-bordewijk"
description: "Ferdinand Bordewijk was a Dutch author. His style, which is terse and symbolic, is considered to belong to New Objectivity and magic realism. He was awarded the P. C. Hooft Award in 1953 and the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1957. He wrote novels and short stories; of his novels, his 1938 Character is canonical in the Netherlands, and was the basis for a 1997 film of the same name."
tagline: "Dutch writer (1884–1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/F.Bordewijk1954.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1884-10-10"
deathDate: "1965-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.2
  momentum:             16.74151150054765
  historical:           13.638592
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0096205/"
    handle:    "nm0096205"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Bordewijk"
    title: "F. Bordewijk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فيرديناند بورديويچك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Bordewijk"
    title: "Ferdinand Bordewijk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Bordewijk"
    title: "Ferdinand Bordewijk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Bordewijk"
    title: "Ferdinand Bordewijk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Bordewijk"
    title: "Ferdinand Bordewijk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Bordewijk"
    title: "F. Bordewijk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Bordewijk"
    title: "Ferdinand Bordewijk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Bordewijk"
    title: "Ferdinand Bordewijk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%96%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A4%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A4_%D4%B2%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%A4%D6%87%D5%A5%D5%B5%D5%AF"
    title: "Ֆերդինանդ Բորդևեյկ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Bordewijk"
    title: "Ferdinand Bordewijk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Bordewijk"
    title: "F. Bordewijk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Bordewijk"
    title: "F. Bordewijk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Bordewijk"
    title: "Ferdinand Bordewijk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BA"
    title: "Фердинанд Бордевейк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1382474"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/143009"
    title: "Ferdinand Bordewijk"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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