# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/asif-farrukhi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:03:19.963Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/asif-farrukhi"
name: "Asif Farrukhi"
slug: "asif-farrukhi"
description: "Asif Aslam Farrukhi was a Pakistani writer, translator, and literary critic active in both Urdu and English. He was also a public health expert and polyglot. He translated books from English into Urdu, as well as from Sindhi to Urdu and English. His collections of vernacular Pakistani writers translated in English are considered critical anthologies. From 2000 to 2020, he was the editor and publisher of the Urdu literary journal Dunyazad."
tagline: "Pakistani scholar"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Asif_Farrukhi.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-09-16"
deathDate: "2020-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.94
  momentum:             5.185185185185185
  historical:           5.072570666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "آصف فرخی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B5%D9%81_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AE%D9%8A"
    title: "آصف فرخي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asif_Farrukhi"
    title: "Asif Farrukhi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B5%D9%81_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AE%DB%8C"
    title: "آصف فرخی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B5%D9%81_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AE%D9%8A"
    title: "آصف فرخي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asif_Farrukhi"
    title: "Asif Farrukhi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4806905"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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