Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion

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Sir Andrew Motion FRSL (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In 2012, he became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, taking over from Bill Bryson.

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Andrew Motion was born on Sunday, 26 October 1952 in London, England. He is best known as a novelist. Motion's country of citizenship (nationality) is British. Andrew Motion is 72 years old and his zodiac star sign is Scorpio.

You can find people similar to Andrew Motion by visiting our lists 21st-century English male writers and 20th-century English male writers.

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Andrew Motion is known for his role in the TV series The Real... (1998) as Self - Poet Lauriet.

He is also known for his role in the TV series The Sunday Programme (1994) as (poem) (2 episodes, 2002-2003).

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