# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-hellens
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:41:24.748Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-hellens"
name: "Franz Hellens"
slug: "franz-hellens"
description: "Franz Hellens, born Frédéric van Ermengem was a prolific Belgian novelist, poet and critic. Although of Flemish descent, he wrote entirely in French, and lived in Paris from 1947 to 1971. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times."
tagline: "Belgian writer (1881-1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frans_Hellens_by_Amedeo_Modigliani.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1881-09-08"
deathDate: "1972-01-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.37
  momentum:             2.572412661964901
  historical:           7.880238666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Франц Хеленс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hellens"
    title: "Franz Hellens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hellens"
    title: "Franz Hellens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hellens"
    title: "Franz Hellens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hellens"
    title: "Franz Hellens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hellens"
    title: "Franz Hellens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86"
    title: "Элленс, Франц"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hellens"
    title: "Franz Hellens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2033811"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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