# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/salma-shaheen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:02:11.188Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/salma-shaheen"
name: "Salma Shaheen"
slug: "salma-shaheen"
description: "Salma Shaheen is a Pakistani poet, fiction writer, and researcher. She is recognized as the first woman novelist in the Pashto language and served as the first female director of the Pashto Academy at the University of Peshawar. Shaheen began her literary career primarily writing poems in Urdu and Pashto. She has written on Pashto language, literature, and culture, particularly focusing on women writers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa."
tagline: "Pakistani poet, writer, researcher and the first woman-Pashto novelist"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-04-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.56
  momentum:             6.923076923076924
  historical:           6.20306
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85%DB%81_%D8%B4%D8%A7%DB%81%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "سلمہ شاہین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salma_Shaheen"
    title: "Salma Shaheen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%BE_%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B9%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%A8"
    title: "ਸਲਮਾ ਸ਼ਾਹੀਨ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85%DB%81_%D8%B4%D8%A7%DB%81%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "سلمہ شاہین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%B0_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "سلميٰ شاهين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://skr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85%DB%81_%D8%B4%D8%A7%DB%81%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "سلمہ شاہین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salma_Shaheen"
    title: "Salma Shaheen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BE_%E0%AE%B7%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "சல்மா ஷாகீன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94705370"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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