Jo Nesbø
Jo Nesbø was a Norwegian novelist, journalist, children's writer, association football player, singer and screenwriter (born 1960).
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Biography
Jo Nesbø is recorded at birth as Jon Nesbø.
Jo Nesbø is recorded as having received Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, Mads Wiel Nygaard's Endowment and Riverton Prize.
Jo Nesbø studied at Norwegian School of Economics. The recorded working language is Norwegian.
The field of work recorded is literary activity. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are detective fiction.
Distinctions recorded are Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, Mads Wiel Nygaard's Endowment, Riverton Prize and Oslo City Culture Award.
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Life and career
Explore 1960–2026
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1960
Jo Nesbø born at Oslo.
2007
Dr Proctor (2007) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
2010
The leopard (2010) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
2011
Headhunters (2011) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
2011
The Snowman (2011) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
2012
Phantom (2012) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
2014
Sonen (2014) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
2026
Người Tuyết (2026) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
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- Oslo
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Recognition and collections. Nesbø received Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, Mads Wiel Nygaard's Endowment, Riverton Prize, Oslo City Culture Award, Solprisen and Peer Gynt Literary Award.
Primary material
Documents and archives
scholarly publication
- Access Wolf Hour by Jo Nesbø, 2026
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2026
- And then as farce: Globalization and ambivalence in Jo Nesbø and Morten Tyldum’s Headhunters (2011), New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 2013
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2013
- Chapter 7 Jo Nesbø: Murder in the Folkhemmet, Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction, 2017
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2017
- Jo Nesbø, Macbeth, 2019
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2019
- Over Her Dismembered Body: The Crime Fiction of Mo Hayder and Jo Nesbø, Rape in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy and Beyond, 2013
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2013
reference work
- “Jo Nesbø”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q202693: Jo Nesbø
Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation
Institutional database
- OpenStreetMap gazetteer entry for Nesbø, Bremanger, Vestland, 6723, Norge
Scholarly · OpenStreetMap Foundation
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scholarly publication
Access Wolf Hour by Jo Nesbø, 2026Crossref registry
Verifiedscholarly publication
And then as farce: Globalization and ambivalence in Jo Nesbø and Morten Tyldum’s Headhunters (2011), New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 2013Crossref registry
Verifiedscholarly publication
Chapter 7 Jo Nesbø: Murder in the Folkhemmet, Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction, 2017Crossref registry
Verifiedscholarly publication
Jo Nesbø, Macbeth, 2019Crossref registry
VerifiedInstitutional database
OpenStreetMap gazetteer entry for Nesbø, Bremanger, Vestland, 6723, NorgeOpenStreetMap Foundation
Verifiedscholarly publication
Over Her Dismembered Body: The Crime Fiction of Mo Hayder and Jo Nesbø, Rape in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy and Beyond, 2013Crossref registry
Verifiedreference work
Partially resolvedreference work
Wikidata, structured authority record Q202693: Jo NesbøWikimedia Foundation
Partially resolved
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.
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