# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/damodar-mauzo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:38:03.227Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/damodar-mauzo"
name: "Damodar Mauzo"
slug: "damodar-mauzo"
description: "Damodar Mauzo is an Indian short story writer, novelist, critic, and screenwriter in Konkani. He was awarded the 57th Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honour, in 2022, Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for his novel Karmelin and the Vimala V. Pai Vishwa Konkani Sahitya Puraskar award for his novel Tsunami Simon in 2011.\nHis collection of short stories Teresa's Man and Other Stories from Goa was nominated for the Frank O'Connor International award in 2015. He has served as a member of the executive board, general council, as well as the finance committee of the Sahitya Akademi."
tagline: "Goan writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Damodar_Mauzo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-08-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.541229385307344
  historical:           5.544565333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://damodarmauzo.com/"
sources:
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    title: "دامودار ماوزو"
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    title: "दामोदर माऊज़ो"
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    title: "ದಾಮೋದರ ಮೌಜೊ"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump