# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bama
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:54:03.620Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bama"
name: "Bama"
slug: "bama"
description: "Bama , also known as Bama Faustina Soosairaj, is a Tamil Dalit feminist, teacher and novelist. Her autobiographical novel Karukku (1992) chronicles the joys and sorrows experienced by Dalit Christian women in Tamil Nadu. She subsequently wrote two more novels, Sangati (1994) and Vanmam (2002) along with three collections of short stories: Kusumbukkaran (1996) and Oru Tattvum Erumaiyum (2003), 'Kandattam'(2009). In addition to this, she has written twenty short stories."
tagline: "Tamil novelist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.26
  momentum:             1.267605633802817
  historical:           9.964113333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE_(%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A4)"
    title: "బామా (రచయిత)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "باما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE"
    title: "বামা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE_(%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%95)"
    title: "বামা (লেখক)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bama_(Autorin)"
    title: "Bama (Autorin)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bama_(writer)"
    title: "Bama (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bama_(%C3%A9crivaine)"
    title: "Bama (écrivaine)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE_(%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE)"
    title: "बामा (लेखिका)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AD%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AE_(%E0%B4%8E%E0%B4%B4%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF)"
    title: "ഭാമ (എഴുത്തുകാരി)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE_(%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE)"
    title: "बामा (लेखिका)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%BE_(%E0%AC%B2%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%96%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE)"
    title: "ବାମା (ଲେଖିକା)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AC%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%BE_(%E0%A8%B2%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%96%E0%A8%95)"
    title: "ਬਾਮਾ (ਲੇਖਕ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BE_(%E0%AE%8E%E0%AE%B4%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B3%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D)"
    title: "பாமா (எழுத்தாளர்)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3537660"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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