# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-paterson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:02:37.734Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-paterson"
name: "Don Paterson"
slug: "don-paterson"
description: "Donald Paterson is a Scottish poet, writer and musician. His work has won several awards, including the Forward Poetry Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He was recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2009."
tagline: "Poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DON_PATERSON_READS_AT_BRIDLINGTON_POETRY_FESTIVAL.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1963"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.348345333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/376065"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "دونالد باتيرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "دونالد باتيرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Paterson"
    title: "Don Paterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Paterson"
    title: "Don Paterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Paterson"
    title: "Don Paterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Paterson"
    title: "Don Paterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Paterson"
    title: "Don Paterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Don_Paterson"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2ea023c9-e869-4f8b-9154-5fb76bbf1b7f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1239398"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump