# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexandra-salmela
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:25:16.881Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexandra-salmela"
name: "Alexandra Salmela"
slug: "alexandra-salmela"
description: "Alexandra Salmela is a Slovak author, best known for her Finnish novel 27 eli kuolema tekee taiteilijan (2010), for which she won a Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize, and was nominated for a Finlandia Prize. In 2013, Salmela published the storybook Giraffe Mum and Other Silly Adults. The book was also published simultaneously in Slovakia. It was nominated for the Arvid Lydecken Prize. Salmela's second novel, The Antihero, was published in September 2015."
tagline: "Slovak-Finnish writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexandra_Salmela.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1980-11-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           34.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.268538666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3433465/"
    handle:    "nm3433465"
sources:
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Salmela"
    title: "Alexandra Salmela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Salmela"
    title: "Alexandra Salmela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Salmela"
    title: "Alexandra Salmela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Salmela"
    title: "Alexandra Salmela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Salmela"
    title: "Alexandra Salmela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Salmela"
    title: "Alexandra Salmela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11850788"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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