# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-verhelst
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:49:08.609Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-verhelst"
name: "Peter Verhelst"
slug: "peter-verhelst"
description: "Peter Verhelst is a Belgian Flemish novelist, poet and dramatist. He won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for Tongkat."
tagline: "Belgian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_verhelst-1510668632_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962-01-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.69
  momentum:             0.396039603960396
  historical:           8.344673333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2724903/"
    handle:    "nm2724903"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "پيتير ڤيريلست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Verhelst"
    title: "Peter Verhelst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Verhelst"
    title: "Peter Verhelst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Verhelst"
    title: "Peter Verhelst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Verhelst"
    title: "Peter Verhelst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Verhelst"
    title: "Peter Verhelst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Verhelst"
    title: "Peter Verhelst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8b7a9fcd-0fc3-4926-8903-90681fac334e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q343477"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1044737"
    title: "Peter Verhelst"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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