# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-kirk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:47:49.187Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hans-kirk"
name: "Hans Kirk"
slug: "hans-kirk"
description: "Hans Kirk was a Danish lawyer, journalist and celebrated author, who penned the best-selling novel of all-time in his native Denmark, The Fishermen (1928). From 1926 to 1928, he was among the contributors of Kritisk Revy, an architecture magazine. Kirk was a long-time Communist Party member in Denmark and remained active until his death. In 1941, during the German occupation, Kirk and hundreds of others were arrested without charge by the Danish police in a sweep against communists and communist sympathizers. He was imprisoned and detained at the Danish prison camp of Horserød, but managed to escape in 1943, just in time to avoid deportation to the German death camps."
tagline: "Danish writer (1898–1962)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1898-01-11"
deathDate: "1962-06-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.67
  momentum:             1.568627450980392
  historical:           12.27303866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0456474/"
    handle:    "nm0456474"
sources:
  - url: "https://da.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hans_Kirk"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83"
    title: "هانس كيرك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kirk"
    title: "Hans Kirk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kirk"
    title: "Hans Kirk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kirk"
    title: "Hans Kirk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kirk"
    title: "Hans Kirk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kirk"
    title: "Hans Kirk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kirk"
    title: "Hans Kirk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BA"
    title: "Ханс Кирк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kirk"
    title: "Hans Kirk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kirk"
    title: "Hans Kirk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kirk"
    title: "Hans Kirk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BA%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81"
    title: "Кирк, Ханс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kirk"
    title: "Hans Kirk"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q936792"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1491063"
    title: "Hans Kirk"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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