# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-cliff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:48:13.701Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-cliff"
name: "William Cliff"
slug: "william-cliff"
description: "William Cliff is a Francophone Belgian poet. He was born in Gembloux. His poems had the good fortune to be noticed early on by Raymond Queneau, and were published continuously by Gallimard until 1986. Cliff won the Prix Goncourt de la Poésie in 2014."
tagline: "Belgian poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Cliff_20100330_Salon_du_livre_de_Paris_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-12-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.57
  momentum:             1.398963730569948
  historical:           7.20792
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cliff"
    title: "William Cliff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81"
    title: "ويليام كليف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cliff"
    title: "William Cliff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cliff"
    title: "William Cliff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cliff"
    title: "William Cliff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cliff"
    title: "William Cliff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cliff"
    title: "William Cliff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cliff"
    title: "William Cliff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2555208"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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