# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-aaronovitch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:26:22.023Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-aaronovitch"
name: "David Aaronovitch"
slug: "david-aaronovitch"
description: "David Morris Aaronovitch is an English journalist, television presenter and author. He is the author of Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country (2000), Voodoo Histories: the role of Conspiracy Theory in Modern History (2009) and Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists (2016). He won the Orwell Prize for political journalism in 2001, and the What the Papers Say \"Columnist of the Year\" award in 2003. He previously wrote for The Independent, The Guardian and The Times."
tagline: "English journalist, television presenter and author"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1954-07-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump