# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paal-brekke
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:37:25.959Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paal-brekke"
name: "Paal Brekke"
slug: "paal-brekke"
description: "Paal Brekke was a Norwegian lyricist, novelist, translator of poetry, and literary critic. Brekke fled from occupied Norway to Sweden in 1940, when he was 17 years old. He made his literary debut in 1942, with the poetry collection Av din jord er vi til. His first novel was På flukt."
tagline: "Norwegian writer (1923–1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrett_av_Paal_Brekke_(1923-1993).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-09-17"
deathDate: "1993-12-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.44
  momentum:             9.558823529411764
  historical:           6.136213333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paal_Brekke"
    title: "Paal Brekke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paal_Brekke"
    title: "Paal Brekke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paal_Brekke"
    title: "Paal Brekke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paal_Brekke"
    title: "Paal Brekke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paal_Brekke"
    title: "Paal Brekke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paal_Brekke"
    title: "Paal Brekke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paal_Brekke"
    title: "Paal Brekke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1552739"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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