# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kashinath-singh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:53:17.303Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kashinath-singh"
name: "Kashinath Singh"
slug: "kashinath-singh"
description: "Kashinath Singh is an Indian writer and scholar of Hindi language and known for writing novels and short stories in Hindi. He was formerly a professor of Hindi literature in Banaras Hindu University. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2011 for his novel Rehan Par Ragghu, and is considered one of the best chroniclers of the city of Varanasi. He has recently received 'Bharat Bharti Award', the state's highest literary award given by U.P. government."
tagline: "Indian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kashinath_Singh_bharat-s-tiwari-photography-IMG_2652_July_28%2C_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump