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Walk in the footsteps of Harry Hole

21 February 2012

If you haven’t been to Jo Nesbø’s hometown yet, make sure to visit Oslo before March 31! Every Tuesday night until the end of March you can join a guided walk through Oslo in the footsteps of Harry Hole. You will visit important places from the books such as Egertorget Square and the Schrøder Restaurant among others.
Travel journalist Tom Sweeney has written a lovely article about his experiences on this tour, please click here to read it.
 
To get more informations about tickets etc. please click go to Visit Norway’s website by clicking here.

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Jo in Australian Newspapers

20 February 2012

Please click the links below to read some great interviews with Jo in Australian newspapers:
 
The Sydney Morning Herald

The Canberra Times

The Age

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New trailer for Headhunters

17 February 2012

Here’s a new trailer for the big screen adaptation of Jo’s acclaimed crime thriller Headhunters. The movie will be released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on the 6th of April.
 
 

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Jo in Australia

13 February 2012

Jo will soon leave for his Australia tour and more dates and events have been added to Jo’s event schedule. Please click here to be updated.

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Jo at the Taipei International Book Exhibition

6 February 2012

This weekend Jo attended the Taipei International Book Exhibition where he signed books, met with fans and was interviewed on stage. Jo has a Taiwanese Facebook fan page and they have posted a bunch of pictures of Jo from his weekend at the book fair. Please click here to check it out.

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The Redeemer book trailer from Slovakia

31 January 2012

Please click the video below to watch the very cool book trailer of The Redeemer made by Jo’s publisher in Slovakia, Ikar
 

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Jo on tour

31 January 2012

Jo is currently in Thailand where he is rock-climbing and writing. He will soon go on a reading and book signing-tour around Australia and New Zealand but first he will fly to Taipei to attend the Taipei International Book Exhibition. To stay tuned and for information regarding venues etc, please click here.

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Phantom book trailer

27 January 2012

Jo’s latest novel in the Harry Hole-series, Phantom, was just published in Sweden and his Swedish publisher Piratförlaget has made a fantastic trailer on the book:
 

 
 
 
The novel has been getting great reviews in the Swedish newspapers, please click here to read a selection.

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Phantom Book Trailer

17 January 2012

Here’s a book trailer of Phantom, the ninth installment in the Harry Hole series, made by Jo’s UK publisher Harvill Secker.
The novel will be published in the UK in March.
 

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Video interview with Jo about Phantom

9 January 2012

English interview with Jo about Phantom, the ninth installment in the Harry Hole series. The novel will be published in the UK in March and in the US in September.
 

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Jo No. 1 in Croatia

6 December 2011

Jo Nesbø’s The Redeemer, featuring a young Croatian assassin and partly set in Zagreb with inspiration for the plot drawn from the siege of Vukovar on the border between Croatia and Serbia, is No. 1 on the Croatian bestseller list.

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Martin Scorsese attached to direct The Snowman

18 November 2011

In today’s issues of Verdens gang (Norway) and Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), Jo Nesbø confirms that his favorite director – Martin Scorsese – is officially attached to direct The Snowman. Here are links to the two articles:
 
Verdens Gang
Dagens Nyheter

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Best of Fiction 2011

14 November 2011

Kirkus Reviews have selected The Snowman as one of the best fiction novels 2011. To see the complete list, please click here.

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Jo in conversation with James Ellroy

11 November 2011

Watch highlights from Jo in conversation with James Ellroy at The Goethe Institute, Los Angeles, May 2011, as part of Writers Bloc.
 

 

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Jo is No. 1 in Ireland

10 November 2011

Jo Nesbø is officially the bestselling author in Ireland this year.

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