Jo Nesbø
Norwegian novelist, musician and economist
- Fame58.2
- Momentum0.0
- Norway rank#115
Source-basedFalling
- Fame58.2
- Momentum0.0
- Norway rank#115
- Writers rank#93
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Born 1960 · age 66Norway
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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.
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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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