# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/g-n-devy
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:02:03.163Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/g-n-devy"
name: "G. N. Devy"
slug: "g-n-devy"
description: "Ganesh Narayandas Devy is an Indian cultural activist, literary critic and former professor of English. He is known for the People's Linguistic Survey of India and the Adivasi Academy created by him. He is credited with starting the Bhaashaa research and Publication Centre. He writes in three languages—Marathi, Gujarati and English. His first full-length book in English is After Amnesia (1992). He has written and edited close to ninety books in areas including Literary Criticism, Anthropology, Education, Linguistics and Philosophy."
tagline: "Indian social activist, literary critic and academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/G._N._Devy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-08-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.912423625254583
  historical:           8.422824
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://gndevy.in/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump