# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/megha-majumdar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:34:16.020Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/megha-majumdar"
name: "Megha Majumdar"
slug: "megha-majumdar"
description: "Megha Majumdar is an Indian novelist who lives in New York City. Her debut novel, A Burning, was a New York Times best seller, winning the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar award in 2021 and a Whiting Award in 2022."
tagline: "Indian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Megha_Majumdar_2022_Texas_Book_Festival.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1987"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.565610859728506
  historical:           9.506374666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump