# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacques-vriens
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:05:38.703Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacques-vriens"
name: "Jacques Vriens"
slug: "jacques-vriens"
description: "Jacques Vriens is a Dutch children's author and playwright. He is known for his 1999 book Achtste-groepers huilen niet, which was twice adapted into a film. Vriens formerly worked as a schoolteacher and has written for the show Tien torens diep. In 2001 he was appointed to the Order of the Netherlands Lion by Queen Beatrix."
tagline: "Dutch writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Archeon_Jeugdboekenprijs_2009-2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-03-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.82
  momentum:             3.420707732634338
  historical:           5.503530666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3623929/"
    handle:    "nm3623929"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jacquesvriens.nl/"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Vriens"
    title: "Jacques Vriens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%83_%DA%A4%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "چاك ڤرينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Vriens"
    title: "Jacques Vriens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D0%92%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%81"
    title: "Жак Врінс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Vriens"
    title: "Jacques Vriens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Vriens"
    title: "Jacques Vriens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2906170"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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