# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jayant-kaikini
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:17:46.670Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jayant-kaikini"
name: "Jayant Kaikini"
slug: "jayant-kaikini"
description: "Jayant Kaikini is a poet, short story writer, playwright, columnist in Kannada and a lyricist and script writer in Kannada cinema. He has published seven short story collections, six poetry collections, four essay collections and three plays so far. He is valued as one of the best writers in Kannada literature and has revolutionized the field by giving it a fresh new perspective. He has bagged many notable awards like 'Karnataka Sahitya Academy' award(1974,1982,1989,1996), Kusumagraj National Literary Award (2010), Katha Award for Creative Fiction (1996), DSC South Asian Literature Prize (2018) amidst others. Kaikini is regarded as one of the most significant writers in Kannada today. Kaikini has been conferred the honorary doctorate from Tumkur University."
tagline: "Indian poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jayanth_Kaikini.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1955-01-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.895502666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ಜಯಂತ ಕಾಯ್ಕಿಣಿ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چايانت كايكينى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayanth_Kaikini"
    title: "Jayanth Kaikini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e7d73e9c-ce3e-4472-aecc-b96106b75749"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%9C%E0%A9%88%E0%A8%85%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%A4_%E0%A8%95%E0%A9%88%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%A8%E0%A9%80"
    title: "ਜੈਅੰਤ ਕੈਕਿਨੀ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9C%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BF"
    title: "ஜெயந்த் கைகினி"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6167564"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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