# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/purabi-basu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:28:24.731Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/purabi-basu"
name: "Purabi Basu"
slug: "purabi-basu"
description: "Purabi Basu is a Bangladeshi short-story writer, pharmacologist and activist. She won Anannya Literary Award in 2005 and Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2013. As of 2005, she has been working as a senior executive at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a drug company based in New York."
tagline: "Bangladeshi poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Purabi_Bose_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-09-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.18
  momentum:             16.17647058823529
  historical:           4.868034666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Purabi Basu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "পূৰবী বসু"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%82%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%80_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%81"
    title: "পূরবী বসু"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81"
    title: "புரபி பாசு"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%81"
    title: "പുരബി ബാസു"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AA%E0%A9%82%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%AC%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%AC%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%82"
    title: "ਪੂਰਬੀ ਬਸੂ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19882258"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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