Biography
Pirkko Saisio is a Finnish author, actress and director. She trained at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki and has written novels, plays, screenplays and other works, sometimes under the pen names Jukka Larsson and Eva Wein. Her debut novel Elämänmeno (1975) received the J. H. Erkko Award, and she won the Finlandia Prize in 2003 for Punainen erokirja.
Saisio has appeared in films including Concrete Night (2013), for which she wrote the screenplay adapted from her novel, Helene (2020) and Orenda (2025). She played Saga's mother in the 2026 film Nightborn. She is the mother of actress Elsa Saisio and lives in a civil partnership with director Pirjo Honkasalo.
