# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-westerman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:28:52.648Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-westerman"
name: "Frank Westerman"
slug: "frank-westerman"
description: "Frank Martin Westerman is a Dutch writer and a former journalist. He studied tropical agricultural engineering at Wageningen University and worked as a news correspondent for de Volkskrant in Belgrade and NRC Handelsblad in Moscow. He is currently a full-time writer of non-fiction books, among which are The Republic of Grain (1999), Engineers of the Soul (2002), and Ararat (2007)."
tagline: "Dutch writer and former journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank_Westerman_(2012).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1964-11-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.352017333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Westerman"
    title: "Frank Westerman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "فرانك ويستيرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Westerman"
    title: "Frank Westerman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Westerman"
    title: "Frank Westerman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Westerman"
    title: "Frank Westerman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Westerman"
    title: "Frank Westerman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%96%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%AF_%D5%8E%D5%A5%D5%BD%D5%BF%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%B4%D5%A1%D5%B6"
    title: "Ֆրանկ Վեստերման"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Westerman"
    title: "Frank Westerman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Westerman"
    title: "Frank Westerman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1444447"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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