# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sharifa-vijaliwala
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:10:31.469Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sharifa-vijaliwala"
name: "Sharifa Vijaliwala"
slug: "sharifa-vijaliwala"
description: "Sharifa Vijaliwala is an Indian Gujarati language writer, critic, translator and editor from Surat, Gujarat, India. She is a recipient of a 2018 Sahitya Akademi Award for Vibhajanni Vyatha, a collection of critical essays in Gujarati, and has won several Gujarat Sahitya Akademi awards for her literary work."
tagline: "Gujarati critic, editor and translator who won Sahitya Akademi award 2018"
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country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962-08-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump