Jo Nesbø en den nestmestseljande romanforfattaran i UK for 2011. Dei einaste som har større sal er James Patterson, melder Salomonsson Agency.
Ifølgje byrået blir det no selt ei Nesbø-bok kvart 27. sekund i UK.
Random House, som er Jo Nesbø’s brittiske forlag, har i dag sendt ut denne pressemeldinga:
JO NESBO IS THE UK’S SECOND BIGGEST FICTION AUTHOR
A NESBO BOOK IS SOLD IN THE UK EVERY 27 SECONDS
The Random House Group UK is delighted to announce that Jo Nesbo is the second bestselling fiction in the author in the UK (hot on the heels of Century author James Patterson, and beating fellow Scandinavian Stieg Larsson).
With Neilsen Bookscan figures of 716,588 copies sold in 2011, someone in the UK buys a Nesbo bookevery 27 seconds (assuming bookshops are open 24 hours a day!).
Jo Nesbo will visit the UK next week to promote the paperback of his latest Harry Hole crime novel, The Leopard (currently #10 on the bestseller list), and the new standalone thriller, Headhunters, published 1st September. He will appear at the Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Square, in conjunction with Waterstone’s on Tuesday 23rd August, and his Edinburgh Book Festival event on Wednesday 24th August sold out within 24 hours of tickets going on sale. The film adaptation of Headhunters will be released in the UK by Momentum Pictures in spring 2012.
Nick Robinson, Sales Manager at Vintage Publishing, says: “12 months ago Jo Nesbo had published 5 thrillers in the UK with an average sale of 20,000 copies. To build him from there to be the No 2 fiction author in just a year and sell an extraordinary 716,000 books in 2011 is an achievement we feel enormously proud of at Vintage Publishing. It’s been a fantastic team effort. But ultimately this would not have been possible without terrific support rightacross the book trade, who have consistently driven sales of the Harry Holethrillers with huge passion and commitment.”
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Jo Nesbo
Jo Nesbo is a Norwegian musician, songwriter, economist and author. His first crime novel featuring Harry Hole was published in Norway in 1997 and was an instant hitwinning the Glass Key Award for the best Nordic crime novel (an accolade shared with Peter Høeg, Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson). His books have been translated into more than 40 languages and he is regarded as one of Europe’s leading crime writers. Visit http://jonesbo.com and http://www.jonesbo.co.uk/ .
The Leopard is Jo Nesbo’s sixth internationally acclaimed novel featuring Inspector Harry Hole to be translated into English. A #1 Sunday Times bestseller, the hardback spent four months on the bestseller list, and the paperback, published by Vintage on 7th July 2011, has been on the bestseller list since publication and is currently #10 in the chart.
Headhunters is a new standalone thriller from Jo Nesbo. It was first published in Norway in 2008, and won the Norwegian Book Prize for Best Novel of the Year. In the same year, Jo Nesbo founded the Harry Hole Foundation, a charity working to help reduce illiteracy in the third world. All royalties from the book, in all formats and editions including the film adaptation, go directly to the Harry Hole Foundation. The film adaptation of Headhunters is released across Europe this autumn, and will open in the UK in spring 2012.
