# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/c-j-sansom
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:01:26.817Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/c-j-sansom"
name: "C. J. Sansom"
slug: "c-j-sansom"
description: "Christopher John Sansom was a British writer of historical crime novels, best known for his Matthew Shardlake series. He also wrote the spy novel Winter in Madrid and the alternative history novel Dominion. He won numerous book awards, including the 2005 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2013 and the Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2022. Shardlake, a television series based on Sansom's novel Dissolution, started streaming on Disney+ less than a week after his death."
tagline: "British author of crime fiction (1952–2024)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-12-09"
deathDate: "2024-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6053664921465969
  historical:           16.433352
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm14711179"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump