# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sunita-jain
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:51:04.477Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sunita-jain"
name: "Sunita Jain"
slug: "sunita-jain"
description: "Sunita Jain (1941–2017) was an Indian scholar, novelist, short-story writer and poet of English and Hindi literature. She was a former professor and the Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She published over 80 books, in English and Hindi, besides translating many Jain writings and some Hindi literature into English. She is featured in the Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English and was a recipient of The Vreeland Award (1969) and the Marie Sandoz Prairie Schooner Fiction Award. The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2004. In 2015 she was awarded the Vyas Samman by the K.K. Birla foundation for outstanding literary work in Hindi. In 2015 she was awarded an honorary D.Litt. from the University of Burdhwan, West Bengal."
tagline: "Indian writer (1940-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SunitaJainBW.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-07-13"
deathDate: "2017-12-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.25
  historical:           7.539057333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump