# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-agard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:27:21.519Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-agard"
name: "John Agard"
slug: "john-agard"
description: "John Agard FRSL is a Guyanese-born British playwright, poet and children's writer. In 2012, he was selected for the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He was awarded BookTrust's Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2021."
tagline: "Poet and playwright"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/IMG_John_Agard.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-06-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.85
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.816781333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/JohnAgard1"
    handle:    "JohnAgard1"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2664971"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Agard"
    title: "John Agard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Agard"
    title: "John Agard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Agard"
    title: "John Agard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Agard"
    title: "John Agard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Agard"
    title: "John Agard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Agard"
    title: "John Agard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Agard"
    title: "John Agard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%90%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Джон Агард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0974456c-65ed-4100-bac5-d77fe00a89b4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1893263"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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