# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/krishan-chander
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:09:15.564Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/krishan-chander"
name: "Krishan Chander"
slug: "krishan-chander"
description: "Krishan Chander was an Indian Urdu and Hindi writer of short stories and novels. Some of his works have also been translated into English. He was a prolific writer, penning over 20 novels, 30 collections of short stories and scores of radio plays in Urdu, and later, after partition in 1947, took to writing in Hindi as well. He also wrote screen-plays for Bollywood movies to supplement his meagre income as an author of satirical stories. Krishan Chander's novels have been translated into over 16 Indian languages and some foreign languages, including English."
tagline: "Indian writer (1914–1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Krishan_Chander_2017_stamp_of_India.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1914-11-23"
deathDate: "1977-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           16.17336533333334
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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