# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amitav-ghosh
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:05:04.882Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amitav-ghosh"
name: "Amitav Ghosh"
slug: "amitav-ghosh"
description: "Amitav Ghosh is an American writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia. He has written historical fiction and non-fiction works discussing topics such as colonialism and climate change."
tagline: "Indian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Amitav_Ghosh_(33426517822).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-07-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.325096
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump