# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matti-yrjana-joensuu
# Generated: 2026-08-15T18:50:04.723Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matti-yrjana-joensuu"
name: "Matti Yrjänä Joensuu"
slug: "matti-yrjana-joensuu"
description: "Matti Yrjänä Joensuu was a Finnish writer of crime fiction. He has been awarded the State's Literature Prize (1982), Vuoden johtolanka prize, and he has been nominated for two Finlandias. He received the Martin Beck Award in 1987."
tagline: "Finnish writer and police officer (1948–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matti_Yrj%C3%A4n%C3%A4_Joensuu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-10-31"
deathDate: "2011-12-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.67221066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0423597/"
    handle:    "nm0423597"
sources:
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    title: "Matti Yrjänä Joensuu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Matti Yrjänä Joensuu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Մատտի Յոենսուու"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Matti Yrjänä Joensuu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Yrj%C3%A4n%C3%A4_Joensuu"
    title: "Matti Yrjänä Joensuu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Matti Yrjänä Joensuu"
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    title: "Matti Yrjänä Joensuu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Йоэнсуу, Матти"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Matti Yrjänä Joensuu"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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