# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/piia-leino
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:00:36.948Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/piia-leino"
name: "Piia Leino"
slug: "piia-leino"
description: "Piia Leino is a Finnish writer. She studied at the University of Tampere and now lives in Helsinki where she works as a journalist. She also studied creative writing at the Kriittinen korkeakoulu in Helsinki. She has published two novels until date: Ruma Kassa and Taivas (Heaven). Leino holds a Master's degree in Social Sciences. He studied at the University of Tampere, majoring in journalism and graduated in 2004. Leino's novel Taivas (2017) won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2019, and her manuscript won the S&S Publishing House's The State of the World novel competition in spring 2017. The latter won the EU Prize for Literature in 2019."
tagline: "Finnish writer"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1977"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.37
  momentum:             4.615384615384616
  historical:           5.934701333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/PiiaLeino"
    handle:    "PiiaLeino"
sources:
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    title: "Пія Лейно"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "پيا لينو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%BE"
    title: "Пия Лейно"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piia_Leino"
    title: "Piia Leino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piia_Leino"
    title: "Piia Leino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piia_Leino"
    title: "Piia Leino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piia_Leino"
    title: "Piia Leino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64148445"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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