# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franzobel
# Generated: 2026-09-01T20:16:15.367Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franzobel"
name: "Franzobel"
slug: "franzobel"
description: "Franzobel is the pseudonym of the Austrian writer (Franz) Stefan Griebl. He was born on 1 March 1967 in Vöcklabruck, Upper Austria. In 1997, he won the Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize and in 1998, the Kassel Literary Prize, amongst numerous other literary awards. In 2017, he won the prestigious Nicolas Born Prize and was long-listed for the German Book Prize for his novel Das Floß der Medusa. He now lives in Vienna."
tagline: "Austrian germanist and writer (born 1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Franzobel_2024_BHO-4426.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967-03-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.06
  momentum:             19.30353430353431
  historical:           11.71620266666667
  currentAttention:     92.3694779116466
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.franzobel.at"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3464970/"
    handle:    "nm3464970"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "فرانزوبيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Францобел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Franzobel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franzobel"
    title: "Franzobel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franzobel"
    title: "Franzobel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franzobel"
    title: "Franzobel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franzobel"
    title: "Franzobel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franzobel"
    title: "Franzobel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franzobel"
    title: "Franzobel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franzobel"
    title: "Franzobel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Францобель"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franzobel"
    title: "Franzobel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franzobel"
    title: "Franzobel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113433"
    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Franzobel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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