# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-van-aalten
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:46:55.431Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-van-aalten"
name: "Thomas van Aalten"
slug: "thomas-van-aalten"
description: "Thomas van Aalten is a Dutch writer. He made his debut with a story in the literary magazine Zoetermeer, at the age of 19. Van Aalten has written the novels Sneeuwbeeld (2000), Tupelo (2001), Sluit Deuren en Ramen (2003), Coyote (2006) and De Onderbreking (2009) and several articles for magazines such as 3voor12, Passionate, VARA TV Magazine, Revu and Vrij Nederland. Van Aalten's style is characterized by absurd dialogues, creepy atmospheres and strange characters. He is a F.C. St. Pauli enthusiast and fan of rock music like Motörhead, The Sisters of Mercy. Van Aalten also often works together with Berlin-based burlesque filmmaker Edwin Brienen."
tagline: "Dutch writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_van_Aalten_(2016).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1978-09-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.22
  momentum:             0.970873786407767
  historical:           7.204068
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0885548/"
    handle:    "nm0885548"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.thomasvanaalten.nl"
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_van_Aalten"
    title: "Thomas van Aalten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_van_Aalten"
    title: "Thomas van Aalten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_van_Aalten"
    title: "Thomas van Aalten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_van_Aalten"
    title: "Thomas van Aalten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_van_Aalten"
    title: "Thomas van Aalten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_van_Aalten"
    title: "Thomas van Aalten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_van_Aalten"
    title: "Thomas van Aalten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2049648"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1950434"
    title: "Thomas van Aalten"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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