# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benyamin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:47:04.762Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benyamin"
name: "Benyamin"
slug: "benyamin"
description: "Benny Daniel, better known by his pen name Benyamin, is an Indian writer in Malayalam from Kerala. He is the author of about thirty books in various genres – from short stories to novels and memoirs. For his novel Goat Days (Aadujeevitham), he won the Abu Dhabi Sakthi Award, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award and JCB Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. The novel Manthalirile 20 Communist Varshangal won the Vayalar Award in 2021."
tagline: "Indian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benyamin_DSC_0857.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1971"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.77
  momentum:             3.5
  historical:           6.029561333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7976141/"
    handle:    "nm7976141"
sources:
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    title: "பென்யாமின் (எழுத்தாளர்)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "بنيامين (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بينيامين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benyamin_(writer)"
    title: "Benyamin (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benyamin"
    title: "Benyamin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BF%E0%B5%BB"
    title: "ബെന്യാമിൻ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4890736"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1875320"
    title: "Benyamin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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