Jo Nesbø

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• James Ellroy’s American Tabloid: will it ever make it to the big screen?

  8 Sep 2014: First it was Bruce Willis, then Tom Hanks and now James Franco: multiple actor-turned-director-producers have tried to adapt James Ellroy’s classic crime novel American Tabloid but none have succeeded. What’s holding them back, asks Mark Hooper.

• British readers lost in translations as foreign literature sales boom

  24 Aug 2014: Popular Scandinavian authors including Jo Nesbø and Stieg Larsson drive growing domestic demand for translated books

• Jo Nesbø on the Harry Hole detective series – books podcast

  Audio (28min 06sec), 6 Jun 2014:

  The multimillion-selling author visits the book club to talk about his novel The Redbreast, maverick detectives, and manipulating readers

• How does Jo Nesbø decide whether to write crime or children's fiction? - children's books podcast

  Audio (11min 32sec), 21 May 2014:

  The Norwegian thriller writer talks about his obsession with farting, why he loves writing his Doctor Proctor books for children plus gives a lesson on how to pronounce his name this interview by children's reading group The Book Bunch

• The Son by Jo Nesbø review – revenge, corruption and violence that fail to convince

  15 May 2014: Val McDermid just can't believe this Norwegian thriller

• Tomas Alfredson to replace Scorsese as director of Jo Nesbø's Snowman

  30 Apr 2014:

  Acclaimed Swedish film-maker is to direct the seventh book in Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole crime detective series

• John Mullan on The Redbreast – Guardian book club

  25 Apr 2014: The third novel in Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole series finds the detective playing catchup with the reader, writes John Mullan

• Jo Nesbø interview: 'The thing about Scandinavia is that we take things for granted. Things can change very fast'

  4 Apr 2014:

  Norway's best-selling writer on why in the 'happy valley' of one of the richest countries in Europe, nothing – even a Russian invasion – is unthinkable, writes Susanna Rustin

• The underrated books whose reputation you want raised

  20 Mar 2014: Alison Flood: It's Carter Beats the Devil for me; but which are the titles you always tell people they simply must get into?

• Book Club with Jo Nesbø

  11 Mar 2014:

  The Norwegian crime writer will discuss his Harry Hole novel The Redbreast at Kings Place on 29 April

• Jo Nesbø plans 'crime noir' version of Macbeth

  14 Jan 2014: Norwegian thriller writer joins authors including Anne Tyler and Margaret Atwood writing fresh versions of Shakespeare

• Nordic noir's sexual violence attacked by British crime writer

  28 Sep 2013: Bestselling author Ann Cleeves condemns gruesome scenes and morbid tone of Scandinavian books and TV dramas

• Easy Money – review

  21 Jul 2013:

  Double-crossing and muddied morality are rife in a relentless Swedish crime thriller brought to the UK by fan Martin Scorsese, writes Philip French

• Clip joint: Top film trailers of 2012

  2 Jan 2013:

  Often better than the films themselves, and always shorter – take a look at some of the best trailers last year had to offer

• Jo Nesbø: 'If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he'd have written a thriller'

  28 Oct 2012:

  The bestselling author explains why Scandinavian writers are drawn to crime fiction – and why he can't help torturing the hero of his books

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