# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gulzar-singh-sandhu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:13:00.877Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gulzar-singh-sandhu"
name: "Gulzar Singh Sandhu"
slug: "gulzar-singh-sandhu"
description: "Gulzar Singh Sandhu is a prominent Punjabi language writer. He won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, given by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, for his short story collection, Amar Katha in 1982. Among other awards he was also the recipient of International Association of Authors, Playwrights and Artists of Canada in 1992 and Shiromani Punjabi Sahityakar Puraskar from the Education Department of Punjab in 2001."
tagline: "Punjabi writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gulzar_Singh_Sandhu_in_Delhi_in_2023.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1935-02-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.203007518796992
  historical:           4.872030666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ਗੁਲਜ਼ਾਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੰਧੂ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump