# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nirmala-govindarajan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:26:42.805Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nirmala-govindarajan"
name: "Nirmala Govindarajan"
slug: "nirmala-govindarajan"
description: "Nirmala Govindarajan is an Indian novelist and journalist. Her novel Taboo (2019) was shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize and was longlisted for the Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize in 2020."
tagline: "Indian writer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Niramala_Govindrajan_At_Book_Launch_Event.jpg/330px-Niramala_Govindrajan_At_Book_Launch_Event.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.666666666666666
  historical:           6.201368
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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