# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shiv-kumar-batalvi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:07:48.137Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shiv-kumar-batalvi"
name: "Shiv Kumar Batalvi"
slug: "shiv-kumar-batalvi"
description: "Shiv Kumar, better known by his pen name Shiv Kumar Batalvi, was an Indian poet, writer and playwright of the Punjabi language. He was most known for his romantic poetry, noted for its heightened passion, pathos, separation and lover's agony."
tagline: "Punjabi poet (1936–1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shiv_Kumar_Batalvi%2C_1970.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-07-23"
deathDate: "1973-05-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.352650666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump