# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rana-nayar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:15:18.368Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rana-nayar"
name: "Rana Nayar"
slug: "rana-nayar"
description: "Rana Nayar is a translator of poetry and short fiction from Punjabi to English. He has more than forty volumes of poetry and translation works to his credit. He is also a theatre artist and has participated in a number of major full-length productions. He won Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee prize for his English translation of the Punjabi devotional poetry of Saint Baba Farid."
tagline: "Indian academic and translator"
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gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.17
  momentum:             12.85714285714285
  historical:           4.868034666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "రానా నాయర్"
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    title: "राणा नायर"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump