Arto Salminen

Arto Salminen (22 October 1959 – 15 November 2005) was a Finnish writer known for his social commentary.

Salminen, who was born on 22 October 1959 in Helsinki, had also worked as a journalist and taxi driver; he wrote six novels which criticised, with a morbid black sense of humour, such current phenomena in Finnish society as neoliberal politics, the decline of the welfare state, tabloid media,

His 1998 novel Varasto (Stockroom), in which the stockroom of a paint company becomes a microcosm of contemporary Finland, was dramatized for the theater in 2005.