# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/timur-vermes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:16:32.440Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/timur-vermes"
name: "Timur Vermes"
slug: "timur-vermes"
description: "Timur Vermes is a German writer. Previously a ghostwriter, his first novel Er ist wieder da, which has sold over a million copies in Germany, is a satire about Adolf Hitler and 21st-century Germany. The English version, Look Who's Back, was translated by Jamie Bulloch and published by MacLehose Press in April 2014. The paperback was released in March 2015."
tagline: "German author"
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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birthDate: "1967"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump