# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vaikom-muhammad-basheer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:15:54.712Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vaikom-muhammad-basheer"
name: "Vaikom Muhammad Basheer"
slug: "vaikom-muhammad-basheer"
description: "Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, popularly referred to as the Beypore Sultan, was an Indian writer of Malayalam literature, a humanist and a freedom fighter in the Indian national movement. He was a novelist and a short story writer known for his path-breaking, down-to-earth style of writing that made him equally popular among the literary critics as well as the common man. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 1982. He was also a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, and the Kerala State Film Award for Best Story. He was a recipient of the Vallathol Award in 1993."
tagline: "Indian author (1908–1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vaikom_Muhammad_Basheer_2009_stamp_of_India.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1908-01-21"
deathDate: "1994-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump