# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerbrand-bakker-q330736
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:09:56.746Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerbrand-bakker-q330736"
name: "Gerbrand Bakker"
slug: "gerbrand-bakker-q330736"
description: "Gerbrand Bakker is a Dutch writer. He won the International Dublin Literary Award for The Twin, the English translation of his novel Boven is het stil, and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Detour, the English translation of his novel De omweg. Both novels were translated by co-winner David Colmer."
tagline: "Dutch writer (1962-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gerbrand_Bakker.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962-04-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.43312
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2838970/"
    handle:    "nm2838970"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.gerbrandsdingetje.nl"
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    title: "赫布兰德·巴克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيربراند باكير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gerbrand Bakker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerbrand_Bakker_(Schriftsteller)"
    title: "Gerbrand Bakker (Schriftsteller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerbrand_Bakker_(novelist)"
    title: "Gerbrand Bakker (novelist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerbrand_Bakker"
    title: "Gerbrand Bakker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Հերբրանդ Բակկեր"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerbrand_Bakker"
    title: "Gerbrand Bakker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gerbrand Bakker (schrijver)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gerbrand Bakker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1150104"
    title: "Gerbrand Bakker"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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