# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-spufford
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:52:44.031Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-spufford"
name: "Francis Spufford"
slug: "francis-spufford"
description: "Francis Spufford FRSL is an English author and writing teacher. His first novel Golden Hill received critical acclaim and numerous prizes including the Costa Book Award for First Novel, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and the Ondaatje Prize. In 2007 Spufford was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature."
tagline: "British writer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Announcement_of_new_Dean_of_Chelmsford_2024_1_%28Francis_Spufford_cropped%29.jpg/330px-Announcement_of_new_Dean_of_Chelmsford_2024_1_%28Francis_Spufford_cropped%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1964"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.114984
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Francis Spufford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Spufford"
    title: "Francis Spufford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Spufford"
    title: "Francis Spufford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Spufford"
    title: "Francis Spufford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%97%E6%9C%97%E8%A5%BF%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E6%96%AF%E5%B8%83%E7%A6%8F%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "弗朗西斯·斯布福德"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5482492"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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