# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacques-werup
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:21:43.150Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacques-werup"
name: "Jacques Werup"
slug: "jacques-werup"
description: "Jacques Werup was a Swedish musician, author, poet, stage artist and screenwriter, born in Malmö. Werup's poetry is often associated to jazz. He was a childhood friend of Mikael Wiehe and Göran Skytte and had his first novel published in 1971. He has co-written many songs with long-time collaborator and composer Michael Saxell for various projects including Gör mig lite levande which is a CD and nationwide stage show with Swedish singer Lill Lindfors and En känsla av ljus, which is a concert Werup and Saxell wrote and performed with Mats Ronander and Benneth Fagerlund. Werup lived in Ystad."
tagline: "Swedish writer, poet, screenwriter, musician (1945-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jacques_Werup_cAdam_Haglund.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-01-14"
deathDate: "2016-11-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.55
  momentum:             9.409504550050558
  historical:           8.149245333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0921653/"
    handle:    "nm0921653"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "چاك ويروپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jacques Werup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Werup"
    title: "Jacques Werup"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Werup"
    title: "Jacques Werup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Werup"
    title: "Jacques Werup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Werup"
    title: "Jacques Werup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Werup"
    title: "Jacques Werup"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453011"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2177887"
    title: "Jacques Werup"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump