# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/c-k-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:07:46.220Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/c-k-williams"
name: "C. K. Williams"
slug: "c-k-williams"
description: "Charles Kenneth \"C. K.\" Williams was an American poet, critic and translator. Williams won many poetry awards. Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987. Repair (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The Singing won the 2003 National Book Award and Williams received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2005. The 2012 film The Color of Time relates aspects of Williams' life using his poetry."
tagline: "American poet and critic (1936-2015)"
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gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1936-11-04"
deathDate: "2015-09-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump