# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irving-layton
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:59:14.184Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/irving-layton"
name: "Irving Layton"
slug: "irving-layton"
description: "Irving Peter Layton, OC was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. He was known for his \"tell it like it is\" style which won him a wide following but also made him enemies. As T. Jacobs notes in his biography (2001), Layton fought Puritanism throughout his life:Layton's work had provided the bolt of lightning that was needed to split open the thin skin of conservatism and complacency in the poetry scene of the preceding century, allowing modern poetry to expose previously unseen richness and depth."
tagline: "Romanian-born Canadian poet (1912–2006)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/IrvingLaytonImage.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1912-03-12"
deathDate: "2006-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     45.82060538739238
  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