# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/geoffrey-hill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:52:24.713Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/geoffrey-hill"
name: "Geoffrey Hill"
slug: "geoffrey-hill"
description: "Sir Geoffrey William Hill, FRSL was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation and was called the \"greatest living poet in the English language.\"\nFrom 2010 to 2015 he held the position of Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford. Following his receiving the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2009 for his Collected Critical Writings, and the publication of Broken Hierarchies , Hill is recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry and criticism in the 20th and 21st centuries."
tagline: "English poet (1932–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_The_Hon._Geoffrey_R._C._Hill_(4670895).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-06-18"
deathDate: "2016-06-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           13.847988
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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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