Norwegian Crime Novelist, Jo Nesbo, Upcoming US Events

by Avid Reader on February 3, 2010

in Avid Musings, SidePosts

Seems that my favorite crime nov­el­ist from Oslo will be com­ing to the US! He has some sched­uled events where unfor­tu­nately, it looks like he won’t be in my neck of the woods. Damn. Well, if he’s in your area, go meet him!

The web­site says he’s pro­mot­ing Neme­sis from his most excel­lent Harry Hole series. Although he does have a new hard­cover com­ing out, The Devil’s Star in March 2010.The three books that are and will be avail­able for US read­ers are: The Red­breast, Neme­sis and The Devil’s Star (in March). Love. Him. I really do. Why? Great plot­ter. Great writer. Inter­est­ing pro­tag­o­nist. Read him. I have. And no, those aren’t affil­i­ate links.

For Fur­ther Reading

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Megan February 12, 2010 at 4:40 pm

Ooh, He’s com­ing near me! I doubt that I’ll be able to make it out, but it’s cool to know about. Thanks!

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Avid Reader February 5, 2010 at 11:33 pm

@Trisha: Thanks, Trisha! I hope he recon­sid­ers it. I want to all of his Harry Hole books no mat­ter where they’re located.

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Trisha February 5, 2010 at 7:25 pm

I (obvi­ously) agree with you about Nesbo and the order in which his books were translated/published.

Any­way, I’m catch­ing up on read­ing PW right now and saw this inter­view. I fig­ured you’d be inter­ested, espe­cially in the last ques­tion, “Are there plans to trans­late the first two Harry Hole nov­els, The Bat­man and Cock­roaches, into Eng­lish?” Nesbo: “The rea­son I never tried to have them trans­lated is that they are about a Nor­we­gian guy trav­el­ing in Aus­tralia [The Bat­man] and Thai­land [Cock­roaches], explor­ing these soci­eties and at the same time hav­ing them reflect Nor­we­gian soci­ety. At the time Harry Hole started to be exported, it seemed a bet­ter idea to start with Harry where he belongs, in Oslo. But with the cur­rent devel­op­ing inter­est for the char­ac­ter, I may con­sider it.“

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