# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kari-hotakainen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:44:16.236Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kari-hotakainen"
name: "Kari Hotakainen"
slug: "kari-hotakainen"
description: "Kari Hotakainen is a Finnish writer. Hotakainen started his writing career as a reporter in Pori. In 1986, he moved to Helsinki. He became a full-time writer in 1996. He has two children with his wife, sound technician Tarja Laaksonen, whom he married in 1983. He has also worked as a copywriter and as a columnist for the Helsingin Sanomat."
tagline: "Finnish writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kari_Hotakainen_-_modtageren_af_Nordisk_rads_litteraturpris_2004_(1).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-01-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump