# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michiel-van-kempen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:31:06.974Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michiel-van-kempen"
name: "Michiel van Kempen"
slug: "michiel-van-kempen"
description: "Michaël Henricus Gertrudis (Michiel) van Kempen is a Dutch writer, art historian and literary critic. He has written novels, short stories, essays, travel literature and scenarios. He was the compiler of a huge range of anthologies of Dutch-Caribbean literature and wrote an extensive history of the literature of Suriname, in two volumes."
tagline: "Dutch writer, art historian and literary critic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michiel_van_Kempen.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-04-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.32
  momentum:             15.45045045045045
  historical:           6.341685333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiel_van_Kempen"
    title: "Michiel van Kempen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ميكيل ڤان كيمپين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiel_van_Kempen"
    title: "Michiel van Kempen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiel_van_Kempen"
    title: "Michiel van Kempen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiel_van_Kempen"
    title: "Michiel van Kempen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiel_van_Kempen"
    title: "Michiel van Kempen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiel_van_Kempen"
    title: "Michiel van Kempen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q511886"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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