# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/altaf-tyrewala
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:46:28.239Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/altaf-tyrewala"
name: "Altaf Tyrewala"
slug: "altaf-tyrewala"
description: "Altaf Tyrewala is an Indian, English-language author and columnist. He lives in Dallas and works in the elearning industry. Altaf was born in Byculla, Mumbai in a Khoja Ismaili family. He did his schooling at St. Mary's ICSE, Mazagaon. He studied advertising and marketing in New York City, and earned a BBA from Baruch College in 1999 before returning to Mumbai to work on his critically acclaimed debut novel \"No God in Sight\". The book has been translated into Marathi, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch, and published in the US and Canada. In 2012, he published \"The Ministry of Hurt Sentiments\" and a collection of short stories \"Engglishhh\" in 2014."
tagline: "Indian writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1977"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           34.37
  momentum:             0.4651162790697675
  historical:           5.734953333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Altaf Tyrewala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "الطاف تيريوالا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Altaf Tyrewala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaf_Tyrewala"
    title: "Altaf Tyrewala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaf_Tyrewala"
    title: "Altaf Tyrewala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "अल्ताफ़ टायरवाला"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਅਲਤਾਫ਼ ਟਾਇਰਵਾਲਾ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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