# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samir-roychoudhury
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:37:00.273Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samir-roychoudhury"
name: "Samir Roychoudhury"
slug: "samir-roychoudhury"
description: "Samir Roychowdhury, one of the founding fathers of the Hungry Generation, was born at Panihati, West Bengal, in a family of artists, sculptors, photographers, and musicians. His grandfather Lakshminarayan, doyen of the Sabarna Roy Choudhury clan of Uttarpara, had learned drawing and bromide-paper photography from John Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard Kipling, who was Curator at the Lahore Museum, and thereafter established the first mobile photography-cum-painting company in India in the mid-1880s. The company was later taken over by Samir's father Ranjit (1909–1991). Samir's mother Amita (1916–1982) was from a progressive family of 19th-century Bengal renaissance."
tagline: "Indian writer and poet (1933-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Writer_Samir_RoyChowdhury.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1933-11-01"
deathDate: "2016-06-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.99
  momentum:             0.410958904109589
  historical:           5.538805333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Samir Roychoudhury"
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    title: "समीर रायचौधुरी"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump