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Katariina Souri

Finnish playmate and writer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ4446505 ↗
Source-derived summary

Katariina Souri (born Minna Katariina "Kata" Kärkkäinen; 27 October 1968) is a Finnish author, artist, columnist and Playboy's Playmate of the Month for December, 1988. On January 25, 2010, she announced that she changed her name to Katariina Souri.

Katariina Souri married Finnish rock musician Anzi Destruction in 2010. The couple divorced in 2012 but continued living together.

Novels

Minä ja Morrison, 1999. Also a feature film (2001).

Vangitse minut vapaaksi, 2001.

Tulikärpäsiä, 2004. (autobiographical)

Jumalasta seuraava, 2006.

Kahdeksas huone, 2008.

Editorial summary

“Katariina Souri” enters the record as finnish playmate and writer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Katariina, Souri and Finnish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 1988, 2010, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1968-10-27. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Katariina, Souri and Finnish.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Katariina Souri” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Katariina, Souri and Finnish provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4446505. VIAF identifies the subject as 250354542. The Library of Congress control number is no2002032879. 5 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 4 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1968, 1988, 2010 and 2012.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Locating cited institutions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Katariina Souri”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Katariina Souri primary sources, Katariina Souri archive and Katariina research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Katariina Souri” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.