# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pierre-mertens
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:24:59.672Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pierre-mertens"
name: "Pierre Mertens"
slug: "pierre-mertens"
description: "Pierre Mertens was a Belgian writer and lawyer who specialised in international law, director of the Centre de sociologie de la littérature at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and literary critic with the newspaper Le Soir."
tagline: "Belgian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pierre_Mertens1989.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-10-09"
deathDate: "2025-01-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.04
  momentum:             15.69958847736626
  historical:           12.07602666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pierre Mertens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pierre Mertens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Պիեռ Մերտենս"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pierre Mertens"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%9F%D1%8C%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Мертенс, Пьер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پیئر مرٹنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pierre Mertens"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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