# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-clute
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:24:28.279Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-clute"
name: "John Clute"
slug: "john-clute"
description: "John Frederick Clute is a Canadian-born author and critic specializing in science fiction and fantasy literature who has lived in both England and the United States since 1969. He has been described as \"an integral part of science fiction's history\" and \"perhaps the foremost reader-critic of science fiction in our time, and one of the best the genre has ever known.\" He was one of eight people who founded the English magazine Interzone in 1982."
tagline: "Canadian science fiction and fantasy literary critic (born 1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Clute_GoH_Loncon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-09-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.25
  momentum:             1.053459119496855
  historical:           13.35864133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "john_clute"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167367/"
    handle:    "nm0167367"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.johnclute.co.uk/"
sources:
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    title: "Джон Клют"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Clute"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Clute"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clute"
    title: "John Clute"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Clute"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Clute"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clute"
    title: "John Clute"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clute"
    title: "John Clute"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Клют, Джон"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump