# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/veikko-huovinen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:43:45.970Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/veikko-huovinen"
name: "Veikko Huovinen"
slug: "veikko-huovinen"
description: "Veikko Huovinen was a Finnish novelist and forester. As a novelist, his writing was known for its realism, pacifism, sharp intellect, and peculiar humor. He wrote 37 books, and one of his best-known humorous novels is The Sheep Eaters from 1970. One of his books, the 1980 novel Dog Nail Clipper was adapted into a critically well-received 2004 film of the same name."
tagline: "Finnish writer (1927–2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Veikko_Huovinen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1927-05-07"
deathDate: "2009-10-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.78
  momentum:             15
  historical:           13.13851733333333
  currentAttention:     5.720000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0403251"
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    title: "Veikko Huovinen"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump