# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sofi-oksanen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:10:11.579Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sofi-oksanen"
name: "Sofi Oksanen"
slug: "sofi-oksanen"
description: "Sofi-Elina Oksanen is a Finnish writer and playwright. Oksanen has published six novels, of which \"Purge\" has gained the widest recognition. She has received several international and domestic awards for her literary work. Her work has been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than two million copies. Oksanen has been called \"Finnish-Estonian Charles Dickens\" and her work has often been compared to Margaret Atwood's novels. Oksanen is actively involved in public debate in Finland and comments on current issues in her columns and various talk shows."
tagline: "Finnish-Estonian writer (born 1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sofi_Oksanen_-_Buchmesse_Wien_2022_(b).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1977-01-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "http://www.sofioksanen.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump