# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jaswant-singh-kanwal
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:43:37.303Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jaswant-singh-kanwal"
name: "Jaswant Singh Kanwal"
slug: "jaswant-singh-kanwal"
description: "Jaswant Singh Kanwal was an Indian novelist, short story writer and essayist of the Punjabi language. He was born in the village of Dhudike, Moga district, Punjab, India. As a young teenager he left school and went to Malaya. It was there that he first got interested in literature. He returned to Dhudike after a few years and has lived there ever since. He was awarded the Punjabi Sahit Shiromani Award in the year 2007."
tagline: "Punjabi writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jaswant_Singh_Kanwal_at_his_residence_in_Dhudike_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1919-06-27"
deathDate: "2020-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.740458015267176
  historical:           6.21944
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "چاسوانت سينج كانوال"
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    title: "ਜਸਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਕੰਵਲ"
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    title: "జస్వంత్ సింగ్ కన్వాల్"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump