# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sulekha-hussain
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:35:12.310Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sulekha-hussain"
name: "Sulekha Hussain"
slug: "sulekha-hussain"
description: "Sulekha Hussain was an acclaimed Urdu novelist from India. One of her granddaughters, Nimi Farook, is married to a Canadian citizen, Yasser Mohammed Ali Jinna, and lives currently in Toronto. Hussain wrote many novels and short stories. She was nominated to the committee awarding fellowships in Urdu language by the Union Cultural Affairs Ministry in 2012."
tagline: "Indian Urdu poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sulaikha_Husain.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1930"
deathDate: "2014-07-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           32.66
  momentum:             2
  historical:           4.867746666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "സുലൈഖ ഹുസൈൻ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "صليخه حسين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulekha_Hussain"
    title: "Sulekha Hussain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "زلیخا حسین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%81%E0%A8%B2%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%96%E0%A8%BE_%E0%A8%B9%E0%A9%81%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%88%E0%A8%A8"
    title: "ਸੁਲੇਖਾ ਹੁਸੈਨ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE_%E0%AE%89%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "சுலேகா உசேன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6759598"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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