# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-rn-lier-horst
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:26:10.070Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-rn-lier-horst"
name: "Jørn Lier Horst"
slug: "j-rn-lier-horst"
description: "Jørn Lier Horst is a Norwegian author of crime fiction and a former Senior Investigating Officer at Vestfold police district. His books have been published in over 40 countries and have sold more than ten million copies.\nHorst made his writing debut in 2004 with Key Witness, based on a true murder story. The detective character in his crime novels is William Wisting, and a television series based on the series premiered in 2019."
tagline: "Norwegian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J%C3%B8rn_Lier_Horst_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1970-02-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.995444
  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/nm9337809/"
    handle:    "nm9337809"
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    url:       "http://jlhorst.com"
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    title: "Ёрн Ліер Горст"
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    title: "Jørn Lier Horst"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jørn Lier Horst"
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    title: "Jørn Lier Horst"
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    title: "Jørn Lier Horst"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump