# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kamala-markandaya
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:29:15.473Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kamala-markandaya"
name: "Kamala Markandaya"
slug: "kamala-markandaya"
description: "Kamala Markandaya, pseudonym of Kamala Purnaiya, married name Kamala Taylor, was a British Indian novelist and journalist. She has been called \"one of the most important Indian novelists writing in English\"."
tagline: "Indian writer (1924–2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kamala_Markandaya.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1924"
deathDate: "2004-05-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.31
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.09805866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ᱠᱟᱢᱞᱟ ᱢᱟᱨᱠᱟᱱᱰᱟᱭᱟ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump