# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-motion
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:22:05.804Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-motion"
name: "Andrew Motion"
slug: "andrew-motion"
description: "Sir Andrew Motion is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In 2012, he became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, taking over from Bill Bryson."
tagline: "Poet, novelist and biographer from England (born 1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Andrew_Motion%2C_April_2009.jpg?width=1200"
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-10-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump