# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hoshang-merchant
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:25:57.714Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hoshang-merchant"
name: "Hoshang Merchant"
slug: "hoshang-merchant"
description: "Hoshang Dinshaw Merchant is an Indian poet, activist and academic. He is a preeminent voice of gay liberation in India and modern India’s first openly gay poet. Merchant is best known for his anthology on gay writing titled Yaarana."
tagline: "Indian writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.39
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.074586666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoshang_Merchant"
    title: "Hoshang Merchant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "هوشانج ميرتشانت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoshang_Merchant"
    title: "Hoshang Merchant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%81%D9%88%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF_%D9%85%D8%B1%DA%86%D9%86%D9%B9"
    title: "ہوشانگ مرچنٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoshang_Merchant"
    title: "Hoshang Merchant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3_%D0%9C%D1%91%D1%80%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82"
    title: "Хошанг Мёрчант"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1630363"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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