# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kunal-basu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:53:48.209Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kunal-basu"
name: "Kunal Basu"
slug: "kunal-basu"
description: "Kunal Basu is an Indian author of English fiction who has written five novels – The Opium Clerk (2001), The Miniaturist (2003), Racists (2006), The Yellow Emperor's Cure (2011) Kalkatta (2015) and Sarojini’s Mother (2020). The title story of his only collection of short stories, The Japanese Wife (2008), was made into a film by the Indian filmmaker Aparna Sen. Basu has also written four Bengali novels – Rabi-Shankar (2016), Bairer Dorja (2017), Tejoswini O Shabnam (2018) and Angel(2020)"
tagline: "Indian author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kunal_Basu_-_Kolkata_2014-01-31_8198_Cropped.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-05-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.276170666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "كونال باسو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunal_Basu"
    title: "Kunal Basu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88"
    title: "كونال باسو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%81"
    title: "കുനാൽ ബസു"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A3%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%81"
    title: "কুণাল বসু"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunal_Basu"
    title: "Kunal Basu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6444150"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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