# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/akhil-sharma
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:01:02.151Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/akhil-sharma"
name: "Akhil Sharma"
slug: "akhil-sharma"
description: "Akhil Sharma is an Indian-American author and professor of creative writing. His first published novel An Obedient Father won the 2001 PEN/Hemingway Award. His second, Family Life, won the 2015 Folio Prize and 2016 International Dublin Literary Award."
tagline: "Indian American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Akhil_Sharma_7271390.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1971-07-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.75
  momentum:             0.5217391304347827
  historical:           6.820088
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhil_Sharma"
    title: "Akhil Sharma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhil_Sharma"
    title: "Akhil Sharma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhil_Sharma"
    title: "Akhil Sharma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E"
    title: "アキール・シャルマ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "അഖിൽ ശർമ്മ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE"
    title: "अखिल शर्मा"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhil_Sharma"
    title: "Akhil Sharma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4700740"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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