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Priya Sharma (author)

British author

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ106638649 ↗
Source-derived summary

Priya Sharma (born 30 December 1971) is a British fantasy and horror short story writer and novelist. Her works have won the British Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award, and World Fantasy Award.

Personal life

Sharma was born to an Indian father and an Anglo-Indian mother and grew up in North West England. She gained a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery at medical school and works full-time as a general practitioner on the Wirral Peninsula.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Priya Sharma (author)” is british author. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Priya, Sharma and author, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-12-30. For this dossier, Priya, Sharma and author is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q106638649. VIAF identifies the subject as 75147266923635482617. The Library of Congress control number is no2018008888. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971.

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This entry incorporates text from “Priya Sharma (author)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.