# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pico-iyer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:16:58.370Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pico-iyer"
name: "Pico Iyer"
slug: "pico-iyer"
description: "Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer, known as Pico Iyer, is an English-born essayist and novelist known chiefly for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk and The Global Soul. He has been a contributor to Time, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times."
tagline: "British writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pico_Iyer_2.08.12_(6847745503).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-02-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.149868
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/PicoIyer"
    handle:    "PicoIyer"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/PicoIyer"
    handle:    "PicoIyer"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بيكو أير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پیکو آیر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_Iyer"
    title: "Pico Iyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%88_%D8%A2%DB%8C%D8%B1"
    title: "پیکو آیر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_Iyer"
    title: "Pico Iyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_Iyer"
    title: "Pico Iyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8B_%E0%AE%90%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "பைக்கோ ஐயர்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/11ddfdeb-2e28-44a8-b332-a41154991069"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2955951"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump