# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-verhaeghen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:38:01.817Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-verhaeghen"
name: "Paul Verhaeghen"
slug: "paul-verhaeghen"
description: "Paul Verhaeghen is a Belgian novelist, writing in his native Dutch. His novels include Lichtenberg (1996) and Omega Minor (2004). Omega Minor has been translated into German, English French, and Hungarian. The Dutch version won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2005 and the Culture Award of the Flemish Government (2006), as well as the Award for Prose of the Joint Flemish Provinces (2007). The English translation, done by the author himself, won the 2008 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize."
tagline: "Belgian novelist and psychologist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1965"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.63
  momentum:             10.71428571428572
  historical:           5.470050666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Verhaeghen"
    title: "Paul Verhaeghen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%86"
    title: "بول فيرهاجن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Verhaeghen"
    title: "Paul Verhaeghen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Verhaeghen"
    title: "Paul Verhaeghen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Verhaeghen"
    title: "Paul Verhaeghen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Verhaeghen"
    title: "Paul Verhaeghen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q444765"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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