# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shahnon-ahmad
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:28:31.290Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shahnon-ahmad"
name: "Shahnon Ahmad"
slug: "shahnon-ahmad"
description: "Shahnon bin Ahmad was a Malaysian writer, a National Laureate, and a Member of Parliament. He was awarded with the National Literary Award in 1982. He was also a Professor Emeritus at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang."
tagline: "Malaysian writer and politician (1933–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shahnon_Ahmad.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1933-01-13"
deathDate: "2017-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6859205776173286
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  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0014110/"
    handle:    "nm0014110"
sources:
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    title: "沙农·阿末"
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    title: "Shahnon Ahmad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shahnon Ahmad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnon_Ahmad"
    title: "Shahnon Ahmad"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnon_Ahmad"
    title: "Shahnon Ahmad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnon_Ahmad"
    title: "Shahnon Ahmad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnon_Ahmad"
    title: "Shahnon Ahmad"
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    title: "Шахнон Ахмад"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnon_Ahmad"
    title: "Shahnon Ahmad"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump