# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/v-balakrishnan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:24:28.985Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/v-balakrishnan"
name: "V. Balakrishnan"
slug: "v-balakrishnan"
description: "V. Balakrishnan was a prolific Malayalam writer and translator of texts between Malayalam, Sanskrit and English. He participated in the Indian independence movement, which resulted in his expulsion from college."
tagline: "Indian writer (1932–2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Balakrishnan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-02-13"
deathDate: "2004-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           32.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.201584
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ڤى. بالاكريشنان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._Balakrishnan_(author)"
    title: "V. Balakrishnan (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "വി. ബാലകൃഷ്ണൻ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF._%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%A8"
    title: "वि. बालाकृष्णन"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF._%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B7%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A3%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D_(%E0%AE%8E%E0%AE%B4%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B3%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D)"
    title: "வி. பாலகிருஷ்ணன் (எழுத்தாளர்)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7905999"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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