# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hasu-yajnik
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:56:33.335Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hasu-yajnik"
name: "Hasu Yajnik"
slug: "hasu-yajnik"
description: "Hasmukhray Vrajlal Yajnik, better known as Hasu Yajnik, also spelled Hasu Yagnik was an Indian Gujarati language novelist, short story writer, critic, editor, folklorist and children's writer. Born and educated in Rajkot, he served as a professor of Gujarati in various government colleges in Gujarat. He had written twenty novels, three short story collections, two jail stories, four medieval story collections, criticism of four medieval works, and edited twelve folk works and six works of children's literature."
tagline: "Gujarati novelist from India"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hasu_Yagnik.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-02-12"
deathDate: "2020-12-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.42
  momentum:             5.748663101604278
  historical:           6.20126
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump