# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rakel-helmsdal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:20:32.082Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rakel-helmsdal"
name: "Rakel Helmsdal"
slug: "rakel-helmsdal"
description: "Rakel Helmsdal is a Faroese author and artist. She writes novels, short stories, plays, poems for all age groups, as well as being a visual artist who illustrates some her books. She is the current chair person for the Association of Writers of the Faroe Islands."
tagline: "Faroese writer and artist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rakel_Helmsdal_2014_reading_her_book_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1966-09-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.43
  momentum:             19.70588235294118
  historical:           6.8045
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.rakelhelmsdal.info/"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakel_Helmsdal"
    title: "Rakel Helmsdal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakel_Helmsdal"
    title: "Rakel Helmsdal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakel_Helmsdal"
    title: "Rakel Helmsdal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakel_Helmsdal"
    title: "Rakel Helmsdal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakel_Helmsdal"
    title: "Rakel Helmsdal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakel_Helmsdal"
    title: "Rakel Helmsdal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakel_Helmsdal"
    title: "Rakel Helmsdal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakel_Helmsdal"
    title: "Rakel Helmsdal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q982689"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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