# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/perumal-murugan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:33:41.310Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/perumal-murugan"
name: "Perumal Murugan"
slug: "perumal-murugan"
description: "Perumal Murugan is an Indian writer, scholar and literary chronicler who writes in Tamil. He has written twelve novels, six collections of short stories, six anthologies of poetry and many non-fiction books. Ten of his novels have been translated into English: Seasons of the Palm, which was shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize in 2005, Current Show, One Part Woman, A Lonely Harvest, Trail by Silence, Poonachi or the Story of a Goat, Resolve, Estuary, Rising Heat, and Pyre He was a professor of Tamil at the Government Arts College in Salem Attur and Namakkal."
tagline: "Indian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Perumal_Murugan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1966"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.61
  momentum:             2.32398753894081
  historical:           8.671208
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://perumalmurugan.in"
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    title: "ਪੇਰੁਮਾਲ ਮੁਰੁਗਨ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump