# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/risto-isomaki
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:28:02.841Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/risto-isomaki"
name: "Risto Isomäki"
slug: "risto-isomaki"
description: "Risto Isomäki is a Finnish author of science fiction books. His 2005 novel The Sands of Sarasvati was nominated for the Finlandia Prize in 2005 and won the Tähtivaeltaja Award in 2006. Two of his novels, The Sands of Sarasvati and Lithium-6 have been published in English, along with a graphic novel adaptation of The Sands of Sarasvati."
tagline: "Finnish writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Risto_Isom%C3%A4ki%2C_2009_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-06-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.62
  momentum:             2.045454545454546
  historical:           7.270482666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3372186/"
    handle:    "nm3372186"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c66d17f4-b417-4c24-a49b-0c13cb17108a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risto_Isom%C3%A4ki"
    title: "Risto Isomäki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risto_Isom%C3%A4ki"
    title: "Risto Isomäki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risto_Isom%C3%A4ki"
    title: "Risto Isomäki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risto_Isom%C3%A4ki"
    title: "Risto Isomäki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risto_Isom%C3%A4ki"
    title: "Risto Isomäki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risto_Isom%C3%A4ki"
    title: "Risto Isomäki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risto_Isom%C3%A4ki"
    title: "Risto Isomäki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Risto_Isomaki"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q373435"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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