# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hennie-aucamp
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:15:50.181Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hennie-aucamp"
name: "Hennie Aucamp"
slug: "hennie-aucamp"
description: "Hennie Aucamp was a South African Afrikaans poet, short story writer, cabaretist and academic. He grew up on a farm in the Stormberg highlands and matriculated at Jamestown, Eastern Cape before continuing his higher education at the University of Stellenbosch. He died in Cape Town at age 80 on 20 March 2014 after suffering a stroke."
tagline: "Afrikaans poet/short story writer/cabaretist/academic (1934–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jong_Hennie_Aucamp.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1934-01-20"
deathDate: "2014-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.4
  momentum:             8.18181818181818
  historical:           6.137185333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ff8396dc-6912-433c-a2b2-acf93b16a20f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennie_Aucamp"
    title: "Hennie Aucamp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennie_Aucamp"
    title: "Hennie Aucamp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennie_Aucamp"
    title: "Hennie Aucamp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennie_Aucamp"
    title: "Hennie Aucamp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennie_Aucamp"
    title: "Hennie Aucamp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennie_Aucamp"
    title: "Hennie Aucamp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1872649"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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