# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saunders-lewis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:09:28.720Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saunders-lewis"
name: "Saunders Lewis"
slug: "saunders-lewis"
description: "Saunders Lewis was a Welsh politician, poet, dramatist, Medievalist, and literary critic. Born into a Welsh-speaking ministerial family in Greater Liverpool, Lewis rediscovered the importance of both his heritage language and cultural roots while serving as a junior officer in the British Army during the trenches of the First World War. As a vocal supporter of Welsh nationalism, Lewis believed, however, that heritage language revival, cultural nationalism, the dramatic arts, and culture needed to precede Welsh devolution or political independence. If the excessive Anglophilia and colonial mentality traditionally known as Dic Siôn Dafydd was never challenged or defeated, Lewis predicted in 1918, \"the Welsh Parliament would [only] be an enlarged County Council.\""
tagline: "Welsh writer and politician (1893-1985)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Saunders-lewis-y-drych-1916_(cropped_2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1893-10-15"
deathDate: "1985-09-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1260504201680673
  historical:           16.70284666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1662779/"
    handle:    "nm1662779"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump