# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/akilan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:56:10.764Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/akilan"
name: "Akilan"
slug: "akilan"
description: "Akilandam (1922–1988), better known by his pen name Akilan, was an Indian writer and novelist who wrote in Tamil. He was attracted by Gandhian philosophy during his school days and he discontinued his college education at Pudukkottai to join the freedom struggle. Later, after Indian independence, he joined the Railway Mail Service, after which he joined the All India Radio and became a full-fledged writer. His stories began to appear mostly in small magazines."
tagline: "Tamil writer (1922–1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AKILAN.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1922-06-27"
deathDate: "1988"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.14
  momentum:             1.208976833976834
  historical:           9.279734666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Akilan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "पी॰ वी॰ अकिलानंदम"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Akilan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ಪಿ.ವಿ. ಅಕಿಲಾಂಡಮ್"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "അകിലൻ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%85%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%A8"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اکیلن"
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    title: "அகிலன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%85%E0%B0%96%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "అఖిలన్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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