# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-kirkup
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:13:19.387Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-kirkup"
name: "James Kirkup"
slug: "james-kirkup"
description: "James Harold Kirkup was an English poet, translator and travel writer. He wrote more than 45 books, including autobiographies, novels and plays. He wrote under many pen-names including James Falconer, Jun Honda, Andrew James, Taeko Kawai, Felix Liston, Edward Raeburn, and Ivy B. Summerforest. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1962."
tagline: "British writer (1918–2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Kirkup_circa_1954.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-04-23"
deathDate: "2009-05-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.78
  momentum:             1.734104046242775
  historical:           6.829232
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7c7229e6-2ee4-48cf-a4c0-de23c221e7f0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%88%D9%BE"
    title: "چيمس كيركوپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirkup"
    title: "James Kirkup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirkup"
    title: "James Kirkup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirkup"
    title: "James Kirkup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirkup"
    title: "James Kirkup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%83%83%E3%83%97"
    title: "ジェイムズ・カーカップ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirkup"
    title: "James Kirkup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q912687"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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