# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/namita-gokhale
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:00:34.972Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/namita-gokhale"
name: "Namita Gokhale"
slug: "namita-gokhale"
description: "Namita Gokhale is an Indian fiction writer, editor, festival director, and publisher. Her debut novel, Paro: Dreams of Passion was released in 1984, and she has since written fiction and nonfiction, and edited nonfiction collections. She conceptualized and hosted the Doordarshan show Kitaabnama: Books and Beyond and is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival. She won the 2021 Sahitya Akademi Award for her novel 'Things to leave behind'."
tagline: "Indian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Namita_Gokhale_at_PubliCon_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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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