# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-siebelink
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:17:46.384Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-siebelink"
name: "Jan Siebelink"
slug: "jan-siebelink"
description: "Jan Geurt Siebelink is a Dutch author. In 2005, he wrote the novel Knielen op een bed violen that sold over 700,000 copies. In 1991, he won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for De overkant van de rivier."
tagline: "Dutch writer (born 1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Siebelink_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-02-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.31
  momentum:             0.7283763277693476
  historical:           8.158785333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2321397/"
    handle:    "nm2321397"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jansiebelink.nl/"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Siebelink"
    title: "Jan Siebelink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Siebelink"
    title: "Jan Siebelink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83"
    title: "چان سيبيلينك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Siebelink"
    title: "Jan Siebelink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BD_%CE%A3%CE%AF%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%BA"
    title: "Γιαν Σίμπελινκ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Siebelink"
    title: "Jan Siebelink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Siebelink"
    title: "Jan Siebelink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Siebelink"
    title: "Jan Siebelink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD_%D0%97%D1%96%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BA"
    title: "Ян Зібелінк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1375353"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1249068"
    title: "Jan Siebelink"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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