# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gunnar-staalesen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:25:00.130Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gunnar-staalesen"
name: "Gunnar Staalesen"
slug: "gunnar-staalesen"
description: "Gunnar Staalesen is a Norwegian writer. He is a major figure in the Nordic noir crime fiction genre through his 20 novels featuring Varg Veum, a private detective in Bergen on the rainy west coast of Norway. The Varg Veum series has been praised as one of the best in modern crime fiction, and Staalesen has sold more than 4 million books in 24 countries. Staalesen is also a screenwriter and a playwright who has worked extensively with Den Nationale Scene, the largest theatre in Bergen."
tagline: "Norwegian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gunnar_Staalesen_Vargtime_(201712).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-10-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.76321333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0820866/"
    handle:    "nm0820866"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.vargveum.no/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جونار ستالسن"
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    title: "Гюнар Столесен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gunnar Staalesen"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump