Jo Nesbø

Norwegian novelist, musician and economist

  • Fame58.2
  • Momentum0.0
  • Norway rank#158
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  • Fame58.2
  • Momentum0.0
  • Norway rank#158
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Born 1960 · age 66Norway
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  • Wikipedia
    54 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Rank in Norway
    #158
    Writers
  • Age
    66
    Born 1960
  • Known for
    The Snowman
    2017
Summary
Updated 2026-06-21

Norway's biggest literary export writes crime novels about a detective named Harry Hole that have moved 50 million copies worldwide — but he started as the frontman of a country-pop band whose breakout album had to be renamed after a fashion magazine sued.

Biography

About

Jon Nesbø was born 29 March 1960 and first found success as singer and songwriter for Di Derre, a Norwegian country-pop group whose second album nearly went double platinum before a women's magazine forced a title change from Kvinner & Klær to Jenter & Sånt. In 1997, a year before the band's final record, he published The Bat, a crime novel that won the Riverton Prize and the Glass Key for best Nordic thriller. After 1998 he left music to write full-time, building an international series around inspector Harry Hole that collected awards on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2007 he pivoted to chil…

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Fame
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58.2
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Score components
Historical25.7
Source confidence75.0
Completeness85.0
Global rank
Country rank
#158
Category rank
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