# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arto-paasilinna
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:33:37.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arto-paasilinna"
name: "Arto Paasilinna"
slug: "arto-paasilinna"
description: "Arto Tapio Paasilinna was a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of Finland's most successful novelists, he won a broad readership outside of Finland in a way few other Finnish authors have before. Translated into 27 languages, over seven million copies of his books have been sold worldwide, and he has been claimed as \"instrumental in generating the current level of interest in books from Finland\"."
tagline: "Finnish author (1942-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paasilinna_20071130.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942-04-20"
deathDate: "2018-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.2878464818763327
  historical:           23.148932
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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