# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/syed-mustafa-siraj
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:40:40.998Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/syed-mustafa-siraj"
name: "Syed Mustafa Siraj"
slug: "syed-mustafa-siraj"
description: "Syed Mustafa Siraj was an Indian author. In 1994, he received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Aleek Manush. In 2005, his short story Ranirghater Brittanto was adapted into the film Faltu by Anjan Das. His oeuvre consists of some 150 novels and 300 short stories. In detective fiction, he is the creator of Colonel Niladri Sarkar, also known as, \"Goenda Colonel\"."
tagline: "Bangali Writer (1930–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Syed_mustafa_siraj.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-10-14"
deathDate: "2012-09-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.1238390092879257
  historical:           7.090210666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump