# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cecil-day-lewis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:55:38.643Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cecil-day-lewis"
name: "Cecil Day-Lewis"
slug: "cecil-day-lewis"
description: "Cecil Day-Lewis, often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, most of which feature the fictional detective Nigel Strangeways, starting with A Question of Proof (1935)."
tagline: "Irish-born British poet (1904–1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1968_press_photo_of_Cecil_Day-Lewis.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1904-04-27"
deathDate: "1972-05-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  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