# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-d-cruz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:18:39.008Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-d-cruz"
name: "Joe D'Cruz"
slug: "joe-d-cruz"
description: "R. N. Joe D'Cruz is a Tamil writer, novelist and documentary film director from Tamil Nadu, India. He won the Sahitya Akademi award in 2013 in the Tamil language category for his novel Korkai. He is the Tamil Nadu state president of Samskrita Bharati."
tagline: "Indian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_DCruz_at_Chennai_Book_fair%2C_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1969"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.26
  momentum:             0.5172413793103449
  historical:           5.548705333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5647217/"
    handle:    "nm5647217"
sources:
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    title: "ஜோ டி குரூஸ்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "आर.एन. जो डी क्रूज"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ആർ.എൻ. ജോ ഡിക്രൂസ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਜੋਅ ਡੀ ਕਰੂਜ਼"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Joe D'Cruz"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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