# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vikram-chandra
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:05:31.966Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vikram-chandra"
name: "Vikram Chandra"
slug: "vikram-chandra"
description: "Vikram Chandra is an Indian-American writer. His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book."
tagline: "Indian-American writer (born 1961)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-07-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             8.268980572517664
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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