# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/balkrishna-sama
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:04:10.731Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/balkrishna-sama"
name: "Balkrishna Sama"
slug: "balkrishna-sama"
description: "Balkrishna Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana or Bala Krishna Sama was a Nepalese dramatist. For his great contributions to Nepali literature, he was awarded the title Natya Siromani. He is considered as one of the trimurti (trinity) of Nepali literature alongside Laxmi Prasad Devkota and Lekhnath Paudyal. He is often called the Shakespeare of Nepal."
tagline: "Nepalese playwright"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Balkrishna_Sama.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1903"
deathDate: "1981"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.56
  momentum:             4.440993788819875
  historical:           7.283406666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Balkrishna Sama"
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    title: "बालकृष्ण सम"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Balkrishna Sama"
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    title: "बालकृष्ण सम"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "बालकृष्ण सम"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Балкришна Сама"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "बालकृष्ण सम"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump