# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samit-basu
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:34:31.930Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samit-basu"
name: "Samit Basu"
slug: "samit-basu"
description: "Samit Basu is an Indian novelist and filmmaker whose body of work includes science fiction, fantasy and superhero novels, children's books, graphic novels, short stories, and a Netflix film. His most recently published novel is The City Inside, an anti dystopian near future science fiction novel set in Delhi and published by Macmillan imprint Tordotcom. Its previous Indian edition Chosen Spirits, published 2020, was shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature."
tagline: "Indian writer (born 1979)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1979-12-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.64
  momentum:             0.4054054054054053
  historical:           6.144961333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11075942/"
    handle:    "nm11075942"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%96%D1%82_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%83"
    title: "Саміт Басу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%91%D9%88"
    title: "سامت باسّو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88"
    title: "ساميت باسو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samit_Basu"
    title: "Samit Basu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samit_Basu"
    title: "Samit Basu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%83%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82"
    title: "Басу, Самит"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7409572"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2458549"
    title: "Samit Basu"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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