# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-bernlef
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:40:03.350Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-bernlef"
name: "J. Bernlef"
slug: "j-bernlef"
description: "Hendrik Jan Marsman, better known by his pen name, J. Bernlef, was a Dutch writer, poet, novelist and translator, much of whose work centres on mental perception of reality and its expression. He won numerous literary awards, including the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1984 and the P. C. Hooft Award in 1994, both of which were for his work as a whole. His book Hersenschimmen features on the list of NRC's Best Dutch novels."
tagline: "Dutch writer and translator (1937-2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bernlef.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-01-14"
deathDate: "2012-10-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.52
  momentum:             0.5551020408163265
  historical:           17.11321466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0076930/"
    handle:    "nm0076930"
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "J. Bernlef"
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    title: "J. Bernlef"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump