# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zahida-zaidi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:37:16.880Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zahida-zaidi"
name: "Zahida Zaidi"
slug: "zahida-zaidi"
description: "Zahida Zaidi was an Indian scholar, professor of English literature, poet, dramatist, playwright, and literary critic. Her literary contributions include more than 30 books in Urdu and English related to social, psychological, and philosophical aspects, and the translation of the literary works of Chekhov, Pirandello, Beckett, Sartre, and Ionesco. She produced and directed several plays of Indian and Western authors in Urdu and English. She received the Hum Sab Ghalib Award for Urdu drama awarded by the Ghalib Institute, Delhi, and the Kul Hind Bahadur Shah Zafar Award."
tagline: "Indian Urdu writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zahida_zaidi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-01-04"
deathDate: "2011-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump