# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/baldev-singh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:17:28.952Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/baldev-singh"
name: "Baldev Singh"
slug: "baldev-singh"
description: "Baldev Singh, also known as Baldev Singh Sadaknaama, is an Indian novelist and story writer in Punjabi-language. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award 2011 for his novel Dhahwan Dilli De Kingre. As of 2012, he has written 55 novels and various short stories and plays."
tagline: "Punjabi Novelist, Storywriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Punjabi_Poet_Baldev_Singh_Sadaknama.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: "1942"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump