# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sukhbir
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:00:47.084Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sukhbir"
name: "Sukhbir"
slug: "sukhbir"
description: "Sukhbir, alias Balbir Singh, was a Punjabi novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. He wrote and published for fifty years. He wrote seven novels, 11 short story collections, and five poetry collections, and made many translations of world literature, essays, letters and book reviews."
tagline: "Punjabi writer (1925-2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sukhbir_2005.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925-07-09"
deathDate: "2012-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.83
  momentum:             13.84615384615384
  historical:           4.869618666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhbir_(writer)"
    title: "Sukhbir (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "سخبير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%82%DB%8C%D8%B1_(%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C)"
    title: "سوقیر (یازیچی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%81%E0%A8%96%E0%A8%AC%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%B0"
    title: "ਸੁਖਬੀਰ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhbir"
    title: "Sukhbir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B0_(%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0)"
    title: "सुखबीर (पंजाबी उपन्यासकार)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7635783"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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