# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tor-torkildsen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:18:07.021Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tor-torkildsen"
name: "Tor Torkildsen"
slug: "tor-torkildsen"
description: "Tor Torkildsen was a Norwegian seaman and ship-owner who changed career to novelist in his 60s."
tagline: "Norwegian writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-06-03"
deathDate: "2006-07-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.03
  momentum:             13.6
  historical:           5.267890666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_Torkildsen"
    title: "Tor Torkildsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "تور توركيلدسين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_Torkildsen"
    title: "Tor Torkildsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%80"
    title: "Торкильдсен, Тор"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_Torkildsen"
    title: "Tor Torkildsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_Torkildsen"
    title: "Tor Torkildsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q329504"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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