# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amarjit-chandan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:26:17.789Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amarjit-chandan"
name: "Amarjit Chandan"
slug: "amarjit-chandan"
description: "Amarjit Chandan is a Punjabi writer, editor, translator and activist. He has written eight collections of poetry and six collections of essays in Punjabi. He has been called \"the global face of modern Punjabi poetry\"."
tagline: "Punjabi poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Amarjit_Chandan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.19
  momentum:             16.43939393939394
  historical:           3.538769333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarjit_Chandan"
    title: "Amarjit Chandan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%85%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%9C%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%A4_%E0%A8%9A%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%A6%E0%A8%A8"
    title: "ਅਮਰਜੀਤ ਚੰਦਨ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%AA_%DA%86%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%86"
    title: "امرجیت چندن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%AA_%DA%86%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%86"
    title: "امرجیت چندن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20605168"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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