# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gurbakhsh-singh-frank
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:51:07.148Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gurbakhsh-singh-frank"
name: "Gurbakhsh Singh Frank"
slug: "gurbakhsh-singh-frank"
description: "Gurbax Singh Frank was a Punjabi scholar and translator. In 2011, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for his book, 'Bharat Nikki Kahani', an anthology of short stories of various Indian languages."
tagline: "Punjabi scholar and translator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gurbax_Singh_Frank_at_Amritsar_in_2018_02.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1935-09-01"
deathDate: "2022-04-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.56
  momentum:             7.804878048780488
  historical:           3.535961333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Gurbax Singh Frank"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurbax_Singh_Frank"
    title: "Gurbax Singh Frank"
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    title: "ਗੁਰਬਖ਼ਸ਼ ਸਿੰਘ ਫ਼ਰੈਂਕ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%AE%D8%B4_%D8%B3%D9%86%DA%AF%DA%BE_%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%A9"
    title: "گربخش سنگھ فرینک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20606660"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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