# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giriraj-kishore
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:30:52.469Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/giriraj-kishore"
name: "Giriraj Kishore"
slug: "giriraj-kishore"
description: "Giriraj Kishore was an Indian writer, who was awarded the Padma Shri by the president of India in 2007. He lived in Kanpur and served as the registrar of IIT Kanpur. He was given the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992, the Vyas Samman in 2000, and an honorary Ph.D. by Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University in 2002. A road has been named after him in the Civil Lines area of Kanpur known as Padmashri Giriraj Kishore Marg."
tagline: "Indian writer (1937-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Giriraj_Kishore_(2016).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-07-08"
deathDate: "2020-02-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.27
  momentum:             0.5839416058394161
  historical:           6.20522
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "گریراج کشور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "گریراج کشور"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump