# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gaston-durnez
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:52:22.587Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gaston-durnez"
name: "Gaston Durnez"
slug: "gaston-durnez"
description: "Gaston Cyriel Durnez was a Flemish columnist, journalist and writer. He worked for the newspaper De Standaard, writing several humorous-satirical columns, and was one of the founders of the Encyclopedie van de Vlaamse Beweging. He was also the writer of De Geschiedenis van Sleenovia (1965), a comic strip by Willy Vandersteen and Edward De Rop, featuring characters from Marc Sleen's The Adventures of Nero, which was subject of a fierce copyright battle between the newspapers De Standaard and Het Volk."
tagline: "Belgian poet and journalist (1928–2019)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1928-09-09"
deathDate: "2019-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.12
  momentum:             3.30188679245283
  historical:           7.271742666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0244238/"
    handle:    "nm0244238"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جاستون دورنيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gaston Durnez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gaston Durnez"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Durnez"
    title: "Gaston Durnez"
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  - url: "https://vls.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Durnez"
    title: "Gaston Durnez"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gaston_Durnez"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2781744"
    title: "Gaston Durnez"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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