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Arto Paasilinna

Finnish author

1942 - 2018

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His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Arto Paasilinna is the 760th most popular writer (down from 701st in 2024), the 25th most popular biography from Finland (down from 23rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Finnish Writer.

Arto Paasilinna is most famous for his novel "The Year of the Hare."

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#25 / 884

Arto Paasilinna ranks #25 among 884 people in Pantheon born in Finland, inside the top 3% of that group.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Arto Paasilinna ranks 760 out of 7,707. Before him are Hugo Ball, Cao Xueqin, Ibn Hawqal, Theognis of Megara, Dio Chrysostom, and Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur. After him are Maurus Servius Honoratus, Harry Mulisch, V. S. Naipaul, Charles Maurras, Neal Cassady, and Bernhard Schlink.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Arto Paasilinna ranks 69. Before him are Michael Bloomberg, Stanley B. Prusiner, Manuel Castells, Giacomo Agostini, Jacob Zuma, and Sandro Mazzola. After him are Neil Kinnock, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Vladimír Mečiar, Tobin Bell, Robert H. Grubbs, and Hissène Habré. Among people deceased in 2018, Arto Paasilinna ranks 45. Before him are Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Thomas A. Steitz, John Gavin, Aaron Klug, Burt Reynolds, and Sondra Locke. After him are V. S. Naipaul, Leon M. Lederman, Charles K. Kao, Bernard Lewis, Nabi Tajima, and Paul Allen.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Arto Paasilinna ranks 25 out of 884. Before him are Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (1861), Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865), Aki Kaurismäki (1957), Mikael Agricola (1510), Vissarion Belinsky (1811), and Mauno Koivisto (1923). After him are Kyösti Kallio (1873), Helene Schjerfbeck (1862), Linus Torvalds (1969), Lars Ahlfors (1907), Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (1865), and George Gaynes (1917).

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Among Writers In Finland

Among writers born in Finland, Arto Paasilinna ranks 5. Before him are Tove Jansson (1914), Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888), Mika Waltari (1908), and Mikael Agricola (1510). After him are Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804), Aleksis Kivi (1834), Zachris Topelius (1818), Eino Leino (1878), Väinö Linna (1920), Minna Canth (1844), and Juhani Aho (1861).

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