# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/suketu-mehta
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:26:44.002Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/suketu-mehta"
name: "Suketu Mehta"
slug: "suketu-mehta"
description: "Suketu Mehta is the New York-based author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. His autobiographical account of his experiences in Mumbai, Maximum City, was published in 2004. The book, based on two and a half years of research, explores the underbelly of the city."
tagline: "Indian–American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/20190831SM1006_(48684850531).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1963"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.62772
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.suketumehta.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%87%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "سوكيتو ميهتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suketu_Mehta"
    title: "Suketu Mehta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suketu_Mehta"
    title: "Suketu Mehta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suketu_Mehta"
    title: "Suketu Mehta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Suketu_Mehta"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3503369"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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