Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole Premieres on Netflix 26 March
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- Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole premieres on Netflix on 26 March, the latest screen adaptation of the Harry Hole franchise that began with his 1997 novel The Bat
- Jo Nesbø has sold more than 60 million books published in 51 languages, and his 2011 novel The Snowman was adapted into a 2017 film starring Michael Fassbender
- Nesbø played for Norwegian premier league club Molde before injury ended his football career, and he names Molde's 2011 league title as his happiest moment
- Nesbø describes himself in three words as 'distracted, cynic and romantic' and says his greatest fear is 'going mad'
- Nesbø was jailed for indecent exposure at age 18 after he and a drunk friend dropped their pants to moon an oncoming car that turned out to be a police vehicle
- Nesbø says he 'only have sex outdoors, so it depends on the weather' and cites rock climbing in Oslo as his closest brush with death when he failed to tie a knot at the rope's end during abseiling
Why it matters: The Netflix premiere extends a literary franchise that has sold 60 million copies across 51 languages into streaming, giving a global subscriber base access to the Harry Hole character. For Nesbø personally, the adaptation caps a career arc that started with a 1997 debut novel and includes a 2017 Fassbender-starring Snowman film.
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