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.
Please click the links below to read some great interviews with Jo in Australian newspapers:
The Sydney Morning Herald
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.
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.
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.
Please click the video below to watch the very cool book trailer of The Redeemer made by Jo’s publisher in Slovakia, Ikar
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Kirkus Reviews have selected The Snowman as one of the best fiction novels 2011. To see the complete list, please click here.
Watch highlights from Jo in conversation with James Ellroy at The Goethe Institute, Los Angeles, May 2011, as part of Writers Bloc.
Jo Nesbø is officially the bestselling author in Ireland this year.