# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manil-suri
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:15:55.194Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/manil-suri"
name: "Manil Suri"
slug: "manil-suri"
description: "Manil Suri is an Indian-American mathematician and writer of a trilogy of novels all named for Hindu gods. His first novel, The Death of Vishnu (2001), which was long-listed for the 2001 Booker Prize, short-listed for the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize that year. Since then, he has published two more novels, The Age of Shiva (2008) and The City of Devi (2013), completing the trilogy."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Manil_Suri%2C_author_photo_by_Jose_Villarrubia.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1959-07-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.25
  momentum:             11.32352941176471
  historical:           5.307454666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ManilSuri"
    handle:    "ManilSuri"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manil_Suri"
    title: "Manil Suri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مانيل سورى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manil_Suri"
    title: "Manil Suri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ece28386-15cc-4295-85ea-7b226b5692c1"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manil_Suri"
    title: "Manil Suri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%B2_%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%82%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%80"
    title: "ਮਨਿਲ ਸੂਰੀ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1890404"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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