# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nilanjana-s-roy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:42:35.865Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nilanjana-s-roy"
name: "Nilanjana S. Roy"
slug: "nilanjana-s-roy"
description: "Nilanjana S. Roy is an Indian journalist, literary critic, editor, and author. She has written the fiction books The Wildings and The Hundred Names of Darkness, and the essay collection The Girl Who Ate Books. She is the editor of the anthologies A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Writing on Food and Our Freedoms. In 2025, She was appointed as a member of the jury for 2026 International Booker Prize."
tagline: "Indian journalist"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1971"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump